Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. His books include The Narnian, a biography of C. S. Lewis, Original Sin: A Cultural History, and a Theology of Reading. His literary and cultural criticism has appeared in the Boston Globe, The American Scholar, and the Oxford American.

Books Authored

Image of The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)
Author(s):
Alan Jacobs
Genre(s):
European, British, History of Literature, Religion, Protestantism, European, British, History of Literature, Religion, Protestantism, European, British, History of Literature, Religion, Protestantism, Religion, Protestantism, History of Literature, European, British

The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography

October 4, 2013
Reviewed by: 
John L. Murphy PhD

“Alan Jacobs offers a handy introduction to the cultural and social effects . . . of this book . . .”

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Image of The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Author(s):
Alan Jacobs
Genre(s):
Self-Improvement/Self Help

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

June 2, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Joseph Mackin

“Alan Jacobs’ bright, broad paean to reading is a sort of secular prayer book. It instructs, exhorts, laments, reveres; it has great faith and—best of all—shows the Way.”

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