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Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
And Other Talks on Life and Religion
Summary
A 1916 Christian devotional reflecting on faith and morality during World War I.
Written by
Archibald Alexander
Language
English
Category
Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A man goes on a quest for knowledge, truth, and understanding in the face of the complexities of existence and spirituality.
Written by
Philip James Bailey
Language
English
Category
Drama · Poetry · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Historical Study
Summary
A tracing of the development of religious thought from the Middle Ages to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Written by
R. H. Tawney
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Legendary Romance
Summary
An Indian merchant’s son sets on a pilgrimage after a life of love, loss, business, and pleasure, and unknowingly relates his tale to the Buddha.
Written by
Karl Gjellerup
Translated by
John E. Logie
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A. W. Tozer’s classic work on Christian living, containing practical advice for those who wish to know God, not simply know about Him.
Written by
A. W. Tozer
Language
English
Category
Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Farrago
Summary
Hilaire Belloc takes a pilgrimage across his beloved home English county of Sussex writing as four distinct personalities, with a wide variety of songs, stories, and digressions.
Written by
Hilaire Belloc
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction · Spirituality · Travel
Source
Standard Ebooks
And an Examination of the Philosophical Reasoning by Which It Is Defended, with Observations on Some of the Causes of War and on Some of Its Effects
Summary
Dymond argues that war is incompatible with the teachings of Christianity.
Written by
Jonathan Dymond
Language
English
Category
Philosophy · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Hilaire Belloc takes a walking pilgrimage to Rome from his hometown in France, writing of the journey, sketching the sights, and digressing on a wide variety of subjects.
Written by
Hilaire Belloc
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Spirituality · Travel
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Thomas à Kempis provides instructions for a Christian spiritual life.
Written by
Thomas à Kempis
Translated by
William Benham
Language
English
Category
Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Dante journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven in order to receive salvation and to find divine love.
Written by
Dante Alighieri
Translated by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Poetry · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
G. K. Chesterton’s unique view on Christianity and how all his “solitary and sincere speculations” were ultimately answered by its theology.
Written by
G. K. Chesterton
Language
English
Category
Philosophy · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of essays in which G. K. Chesterton debates the intellectuals of his day on a range of topics.
Written by
G. K. Chesterton
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of poems by John Henry Newman.
Written by
John Henry Newman
Language
English
Category
Poetry · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An allegorical story of a pilgrim in search of redemption, followed later by his wife and children, passing through great trials before reaching the Celestial City.
Written by
John Bunyan
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A dramatic imagining in blank verse of the rebellion of Satan against God, Satan’s overthrow, and the Fall of Man.
Written by
John Milton
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Poetry · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Little Book for Normal People
Summary
Evelyn Underhill makes the case that mysticism is accessible and beneficial to everyone.
Written by
Evelyn Underhill
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
(Song Offerings)
Summary
Prose poems of offering translated by the author from the original Bengali.
Written by
Rabindranath Tagore
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Poetry · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Christianity Not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Concept of Life
Summary
Tolstoy describes true Christianity as a non-hierarchical, nonviolent, non-coercive pursuit, and criticizes institutional Christianity as a deceptive corruption.
Written by
Leo Tolstoy
Translated by
Leo Wiener
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A brief meditation on depression, philosophy, religion, and the meaning of life.
Written by
Leo Tolstoy
Translated by
Aylmer Maude
Language
English
Category
Philosophy · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
An Indian Tale
Summary
A man embarks on a spiritual journey through India.
Written by
Hermann Hesse
Translated by
Amy Coulter
Anke Dreher
Gunther Olesch
Semyon Chaichenets
Stefan Langer
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks