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The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis

The Imitation of Christ

A contemporary selection of Catholic classics, curated for the modern reader by Our Sunday Visitor in the spirit of our founder, Archbishop John Francis Noll.

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The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis

The Imitation of Christ

This classic of Christian devotional literature has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Both Protestants and Catholics — as well as mystics and historians of religious thought — have studied these meditations on the life and teachings of Jesus, finding in them a path to prayer and spiritual guidance. Written in a candid and conversational style, The Imitation of Christ discusses liberation from worldly inclinations, recollection as a preparation for...

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The Idylls, Epigrams, and Epitaphs

Theocritus

The Idylls, Epigrams, and Epitaphs

Theocritus of Syracuse (born c. 300 BCE,—died after 260 BCE) is remembered as the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, though little is known of his life outside of his writings. He was probably born in Syracuse, in Italy, and lived for a time in Alexandria when he gained the patronage of Ptolemy Philadelphus. This lyric and pastoral poet wrote what was termed eidyllia («idylls»), which means «little poems,» that reflected the love he felt for his homeland. Theocritus was quite innovative,...

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The Hero and the Perennial Journey...

Susan Mackey-Kallis

The Hero and the Perennial Journey Home in American Film

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Susan Mackey-Kallis

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer, J.G. Frazer и др.

The Golden Bough

The Golden Bough is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The book documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century...

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James George Frazer, J.G. Frazer и др.

The Golden Bough

Sir James George Frazer

The Golden Bough

A certain sacred tree was forbidden to the touch, save only for runaway slaves: if the slave could break off a branch — The Golden Bough — he could challenge the tree's attendant priest to mortal combat. If victorious, the slave would replace the priest as King of the Woods — until his lethal defeat by another bearer of The Golden Bough. Sir James George Frazer, an expert in myth and religion, was so intrigued by this tale from classical mythology that he spent...

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Sir James George Frazer

The Elegies of Maximianus

Maximianus

The Elegies of Maximianus

Not much can be known about the life of Maximianus, who has been called «the last of the Roman poets,» beyond what can be inferred from his poetry. He was most likely a native of Tuscany, probably lived until the middle of the sixth century, and, at an advanced age, went as a diplomat to the emperor's court at Constantinople. A. M. Juster has translated the complete elegies of Maximianus faithfully but not literally, resulting in texts that work beautifully as poetry in English....

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The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusso...

Thorpe Benjamin

The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson Translated from the Original Old Norse Text Into English

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Thorpe Benjamin

The Confessions of St. Augustine

St. Augustine

The Confessions of St. Augustine

More than an autobiography, The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the most influential religious books in the Christian tradition. A great work of Western literature, it recalls crucial events and episodes in the author's life, in particular, life with his devoutly Christian mother and his origins in rural Algeria in the mid-fourth century A.D.; the rise to a lavish life at the imperial court in Milan; his struggle with sexual desires; eventual renunciation of secular ambitions and...

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The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Saint Bishop of Hippo Augustine, Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine и др.

The Confessions of Saint Augustine

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered by many to be one of the most important religious biographies of all time. Written in the middle of the 4th century «The Confessions of Saint Augustine» tells of its author's upbringing in Algeria, his place at the Imperial court of Milan, his struggle to overcome his sexual desires, and the ultimate dedication of his life to Christ and Christian ways. «The Confessions of Saint Augustine» is not simply a recount of the author's life but...

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Saint Bishop of Hippo Augustine, Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine и др.

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gand...

Mohandas K. Gandhi

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi (Rediscovered Books)

My first acquaintance with the Gita began in 1888-89 with the verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold known as the Song Celestial. On reading it, I felt a keen desire to read a Gujarati translation. And I read as many translations as I could lay hold of. But all such reading can give me no passport for presenting my own translation. Then again my knowledge of Sanskrit is limited, my knowledge of Gujarati too is in no way scholarly. How could I then dare present the public with my translation? It...

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Mohandas K. Gandhi

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gand...

Mohandas K. Gandhi

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

The Bhagavad Gita presents a synthesis of the Brahmanical concept of Dharma, theistic bhakti, the yogic ideals of liberation through jnana, and Samkhya philosophy. Numerous commentaries have been written on the Bhagavad Gita with widely differing views on the essentials. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi penned this extensive commentary on the Gita, and called the sacred text «The Gospel of Selfless Action.»

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Mohandas K. Gandhi

The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yaza...

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The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan

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Tales of the Neighborhood

Galit Hasan-Rokem

Tales of the Neighborhood

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Galit Hasan-Rokem

Tales from the Norse Legends

Ксюша Ангел

Tales from the Norse Legends

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Ксюша Ангел

Spookiest Stories Ever

Roberta Simpson Brown

Spookiest Stories Ever

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Roberta Simpson Brown

Śpiewnik pielgrzymkowy

Bartłomiej Łuczak

Śpiewnik pielgrzymkowy

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Bartłomiej Łuczak

Speak, Bird, Speak Again

Ibrahim Muhawi

Speak, Bird, Speak Again

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Ibrahim Muhawi

She

Kathryn Tucker Windham

She

This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. In She, which Windham was putting the finishing touches on when she died in June 2011, the author describes how she woke up one day to find that she had an unwanted houseguest, an old woman who had suddenly moved into her home and was taking over her life. Windham referred...

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Seven Hundred Elegant Verses

Govardhana

Seven Hundred Elegant Verses

When Go·várdhana composed his "Seven Hundred Elegant Verses" in Sanskrit in the twelfth century CE, the title suggested that this was a response to the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributed to King Hala, composed almost a thousand years earlier. Both sets of poems were composed in the arya metre. Besides being the name of a metre, in Sanskrit arya means a noble or elegant lady, and Go·várdhana wished to...

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Govardhana

Selections from Ystorya Bown o Hamt...

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Selections from Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn

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Sacred Mushrooms

Carl A. P. Ruck

Sacred Mushrooms

In the ancient world, men and women joined cults known as Mysteries to unite with the deities of the otherworld and achieve eternal life. The most important of the Mysteries existed for two millennia at the village of Eleusis. Its deities were Demeter and Persephone, interchangeable in their roles as mother and daughter. The initiations and other rituals of this goddess-based cult were a profound secret: divulging information was punishable by death. For centuries, scholars have probed the...

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Carl A. P. Ruck

Restless Dead

Sarah Iles Johnston

Restless Dead

During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In <i>Restless Dead</i>, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that...

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Republic, The The

Plato

Republic, The The

Plato's best-known work, The Republic was written around 380 BC. Largely a Socratic dialogue concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man, it serves as the forerunner for such other classics of political thought as Cicero's De Republica, St. Augustine's City of God, and Thomas More's Utopia. Among the ideas put forth are the eternal conflict between the world of the senses (the cave) and the world of ideas (the world outside the cave),...

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