{"product_id":"2026200013674-secondhand-essays-last-essays-and-in-a-strange-land","title":"Essays: Last Essays And In A Strange Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Gill — sculptor, typographer, printmaker, and one of the most provocative Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century — gathers his final meditations into a single, urgent testament in Essays: Last Essays and In a Strange Land. Written in the twilight of his life, these pieces argue with characteristic ferocity against the dehumanising tide of industrialism, championing instead a return to sacred craftsmanship, beauty, and the integration of art with everyday labour. With an intimate introduction by Mary Gill, the collection carries the weight of a man who knew his time was short and refused to waste a word.\n\nGill's prose style is polemical yet poetic, combining the rigour of a trained craftsman with the fervour of a religious convert — every sentence is chiselled rather than written. Rooted in the traditions of Distributism and the Arts and Crafts movement, the essays illuminate the fault lines between the sacred and the secular, the handmade and the mass-produced, in ways that remain startlingly relevant today. Whether one agrees with Gill's conclusions or not, these pages leave the reader confronting a single, inescapable question: what does it truly mean to make something well?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160933245147,"sku":"2026200013674-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2603d6bc-3805-46fd-b0eb-c60d1d06b484.png?v=1787188435","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013674-secondhand-essays-last-essays-and-in-a-strange-land","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}