God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey: Selected Essays, Speeches and Articles by Dorothy L. Sayers

by Dorothy L. Sayers, Suzanne Bray (Editor)

From her first book of poetry to her incomplete translation of Dante’s Paradiso, Dorothy L. Sayers was responsible for hundreds of publications. Novels, short stories, poems, plays, translations, essays and articles of many kinds, book reviews, speeches and radio broadcasts reveal a writer who took her work seriously and managed to earn her living with her pen. Not all of Sayers’ immense output is easily accessible today. While her fiction has remained more or less continuously in print, much of her other work has been more difficult to find and some speeches, essays and articles have never been reprinted at all.

This collection of Sayers’ works, presented in chronological order, covers most of her adult life, from the light-hearted meditations of a young woman who still has not found her place in the world to the serious and highly pragmatic opinions of an experienced playwright eager to share what she has learned with others. They cover a wide range of subjects – not only God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey’ but also Oxford, drama, love, the press, the Church and the devil, among others! One text, the radio broadcast on ‘The Over-30 Association’, has never been published before.

225 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2019

About the author

The detective stories of well-known British writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers mostly feature the amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey; she also translated the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.

This renowned author and Christian humanist studied classical and modern languages.

Her best known mysteries, a series of short novels, set between World War I and World War II, feature an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. She is also known for her plays and essays.

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