NEWMAN

Of the spiritual odysseys which dominate the literature of nineteenth-century England, Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest and yet one of the most difficult. Newman wrote the Apologia in 1864, as a reply to Charles Kingsley’s attack on his veracity and that of his fellow Roman Catholic clergy; the following year he revised it extensively and thereafter amended new impressions almost until his death in 189. This fineedition, long unavailable, has been reissued for the centenary; it includes all the variants resulting from Newman’s revisions, in both the printed texts and the surviving manuscripts.