Saturday, December 24, 2022

Ronald Knox - 358 / 365 of reading one short story every day.


Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English Catholic priest, theologian and radio broadcaster.

 He wrote extensively on religious topics and also wrote novels and short fiction on detective and spy mysteries. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was also appointed chaplain at Trinity College. Despite being the son of an Anglican priest, he was deeply moved by the Catholic church ,the reasons for which are explained in Apologia (1917). 

In 1947, he published in The Strand Magazine a Sherlockian pastiche The Apocryphal Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the First Class Carriage.
( Source Arthur Doyle site )




Barchester Pilgrimage is a 1935 novel by Ronald Knox. It is like an unofficial sequel to Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire ( published between 1855 and 1867) which were a series of six novels based on the lives of the gentry, clergy, statesmen etc.

The book is a satire as well as observations on the changes that time brings to the social and religious structure.




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