Most Popular Books by Malcolm Muggeridge

Excerpts drawn from books, essays, journalism, broadcasts, scripts, diaries and letters, 1926-1986.

No woman alive today has inspired so many with her simplicity of faith and compassion so all-encompassing. As she daily embraces the "least of the least" in her arms, Mother Theresa challenges the whole world to greater acts of service and understanding in the name of love. First published in 1971, this classic work introduced Mother Theresa to the Western World. As timely now as it was then, Something Beautiful for God interprets her life through the eyes of a modern-day skeptic who became literally transformed within her presence, describing her as "a light which could never be extinguised."

"Malcolm Muggeridge was one of Great Britain''s mostwell-known journalists and television personalities, having interviewed practically every major public figure of his time. He shocked the world with his conversion to Christianity later in life. ""St. Mugg"", as he was affectionately known, was clear in his new-found faith: ""It is the truth that has died, not God,"" and ""Jesus was God or he was nothing."" These wonderful selections of Muggeridge''s writings and speeches cover a wide variety of spiritualthemes, revealing his profound faith, great wit, and lively writing style. Topics include ""Jesus: The Man Who Lives"", ""Is There a God?"", ""The Prospect of Death"", ""Do We NeedReligion?"", ""Peace and Power"", and many more. ""The counter-countercultural declaration of Mr. Muggeridge''sconversion was especially eye-catching given the great legions traveling in the opposite direction. His largerpublic knew him through his work as a television host and critic. But all of literate England, and much of America, knew him as a learned and incisive journalist who had written Winter in Moscow, a searing exposé of Communism. His intellect and historical savoir-faire gave hiscriticisms a very long reach. In America he made regular appearances as book editor of Esquire magazine. NoEnglishman has a more mordant, more attractive wit.""

From the book: Ò What is a conversion? The question is like asking, ''What is falling in love?'' There is no standard procedure, no fixed time. No Damascus Road experience has been vouchsafed me; I have just stumbled on, like Bunyan''s Pilgrim, falling into the Slough of Despond, locked up in Doubting Castle, terrified at passing through the Valley of the Shadow of Death; from time to time, by God''s mercy, relieved of my burden of sin, but only, alas, soon to acquire it again.Ó ÒFrom my earliest years, there was something going on inside me other than vague aspirations to make a name for myself and a stir in the world: something that led me to feel myself a stranger among strangers in a strange land, whose true habitat was elsewhere, another destiny whose realization would swallow up time into Eternity, transform flesh into spirit, knowledge into faith, and reveal in transcendental terms what our earthly life truly signifies.Ó In November 1982, Malcolm Muggeridge was received into the Roman Catholic Church, an event which attracted much attention and curiosity. To Malcolm Muggeridge, it signified Òa sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life.Ó Malcolm Muggeridge, well known around the world in the latter part of the twentieth century as a journalist, writer, and media figure, is still remembered as a vociferous unbeliever for a great part of his career. But always he had had an awareness that another dimension existed, that there was a destiny beyond the devices and desires of the ego, and that earthly life could not be the end. This book, first published in 1988 and the last of his writing to be published in his lifetime, is a personal statement of the history and development of his religious beliefs. An important section relates to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, latterly beatified, and with expectations to becoming a Saint. Her influence was perhaps the most powerful force leading this deeply thinking man to God and to the Roman Catholic Church. He describes also the effect upon him of meetings with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a man whom he considers to be one of the greatest prophets of our time, with a profound spiritual message for our turbulent world. This moving testimony is not about the mechanics of becoming a Roman Catholic. Rather, it is about a series of happenings, occasions of enlightenment, that led one spiritually troubled man to find God. It is a statement of belief which will fascinate all who are interested in the workings of the human mind, and will inspire all who seek the Truth.

England''s "bad boy" essayist and critic uses his wit and iconoclastic talents to deflate a number of sacred cows.

Selected addresses and interviews.

"The media in general, and TV in particular, are incomparably the greatest single influence in our society . This influence is, in my opinion, largely exerted irresponsibly, arbitrarily, and without reference to any moral or intellectual, still less spiritual guidelines whatsoever." Throughout his journalistic career, Malcolm Muggeridge was a commentator. On radio and television, as a lecturer, journalist and author, he fascinated, delighted, provoked-and sometimes infuriated-his audiences. Christ and the Media is a sharp, witty critique of media-oriented culture with such intriguing fantasies as the "the Fourth Temptation," in which Jesus is approached with the offer of a worldwide TV network. "Future historians," wrote Muggeridge, "will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster which no one knows how to control or direct, and marvel that we should have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence. Born in 1903 started his career as a university lecturer at the university in Cairo before taking up journalism. As a journalist he worked around the world on the Guardian, Calcutta Statesman, the Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph, and then in 1953 became editor of Punch where he remained for four years. In later years he became best known as a broadcaster both on television and radio for the BBC. His other books include Jesus Rediscovered, Jesus: The Man Who Lives, and A Third Testament. He died in 1990.

A collection of the author''s thoughts about faith, God, and age.

The speaker asserts that people who try to make themselves happy in earthly terms are doomed to failure.

John Bosco is a favorite saint of all Catholic youth but especially of boys. A Story of St. John Bosco details the very interesting story about the life of John Bosco, a story that has had a great influence on Catholic youth the past 100 years.

Rev. ed. published as: Muggeridge, ancient & modern. 1981.

"A collection of Muggeridge''s writings. Demonstrates that his preoccupation with might broadly be called "religious" questions is no recent quirk, but a theme running through all his writings."

A Modern pilgrim explores the spiritual wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky. Based on an acclaimed TV series, this illuminating collection of portraits brings to life seven men in search of God, seven maverick thinkers whose spiritual wanderings make for unforgettable reading.

In Geneva, the author works for the I.L.O. Back to India, on to London, and into wartime British Intelligence where he works alongside Kim Philby, and after the war, a job on the Daily Telegraph.

This 1934 fictionalized account of Stalin''s Moscow presents an Orwellian nightmare satirized, as Western journalists blithely overlook starving peasants and support the utopian claims of one of the bloodiest regimes in human history.

Discusses the downfall of world-dependent Christendom and the continuance of the everlasting kingdom of Jesus Christ. -- Back cover.

Muggeridge''s writing dazzles with its prophetic insight, courage and wit. He was the first writer to reveal the true nature of Stalin''s regime when in 1933 he exposed the terror famine in the Ukraine. Four decades later, Muggeridge was to make the work of Mother Teresa of Calcutta who contributed a Foreword to this book during the initial stages of its research known all over the world. This enthralling collection of Muggeridge''s journalism, reveals the astonishing range and steadiness of his gaze. Muggeridge seems to have been present at the great turning points of the last century and to have known, and seen through, the pretensions of many of its protagonists. Painstakingly researched from amongst Muggeridge''s private papers, journals, letters and unpublished works, Time and Eternity offers unique and inspirational insight into the professional and private journey of one of the great writers of our time.

The authors undertook to travel following Paul''s journeys between Jerusalem and Rome to enable them to understand what Paul stood for, what he achieved and what he means to us today.

A critical biography of the Victorian novelist & satirist by the noted critic & editor of "Punch." Although certain other critics have termed Butler a rebel against the constraints of Victorianism, Muggeridge maintains that Butler was, rather, the epitome of the Victorian writer. "A piquant study which ''debunks'' the ''debunker'' subtly & with psychological fairness, Mr. Muggeridge has achieved a thought-provoking, truthful, amusing portrait."--MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.

The internationally-known editor and journalist records his aspirations and experiences from the early 1900s through the end of World War II