The Catholic Book Club discussion

3. Have you read other books by Louis de Wohl? How does this compare?

I have read The Last Crusader: A Novel about Don Juan of Austria, by Louis de Wohl, here in the Club, in June 2020.

In my opinion, it has the same problem as this book: it ends in the battle of Lepanto, while the life of Don Juan de Austria ended seven years later, during which he fulfilled important roles that aren't mentioned in the book. In the case of the book we are reading now, about forty years of the life of St. Augustin are missing. But this belongs to a different thread.

I have read almost all books of Louis de Wohl except four. This is a writer that i know rather well.

This problem that the Professor writes did not appear in "Quiet Light" or "Joyful beggar" or "The glorious folly" where the lives of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Francis Assissi, and Saint Paul were complete with Saint Benedict happened the same.

About the "Last Crusader" Louis de Wohl did not want to tell the rest of the life of Don John for two reasons firstly wanted to cut the story in the Best moment of the John Austria's life and the second reason is because Louis de Wohl wanted to a avoid the fights between calvinists and Catholics Louis de Wohl lived in Germany and perhaps had protestants friends and for this reason he wanted to avoid this subplot. Louis de Wohl only speaks of the protestantism in the novel of Saint Francis Xavier for telling as the jesuists discussed with them. If somebody wanted to continue the life of John Austria i recommend to read "Natural Lord" by Laszlo Passuth (the hingarian novel is interesting to know the destiny of the traitor Antonio Pérez) and "Jeromin" by the Jesuit Luis Coloma (he wrote a novel about Mary Stuart). PD. About the Princess of Eboli i recommend "The castle of Diamond" by my admired Juan Manuel de Prada.

Manuel wrote: "I have read The Last Crusader: A Novel about Don Juan of Austria, by Louis de Wohl, here in the Club, in June 2020.

In my opinion, it has the same problem as this bo..."

I had forgotten that de Wohl wrote that, so I have read the same two.