Religious Books
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A Laodicean A Story Of To Day
[english | 1881]Thomas Hardy
Summary: [A vacillating young woman is thrust onto the horns of religious and romantic dilemmas.]
Genres: [fiction | religious | romance] Downloads: 165
Barchester Towers
[english | 1857]Anthony Trollope
Summary: [Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.]
Genres: [fiction | religious] Downloads: 131
Ben Hur A Tale Of The Christ
[english | 1880]Lewis Wallace
Summary: [Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12 1880 by Harper Brothers. Wallaces work is part of an important sub-genre of historical fiction set among the characters of the New Testament. The novel was a phenomenal best-seller it soon surpassed Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American novel and retained this distinction until ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical | religious] Downloads: 168
Dawn Of All
[english | 1911]Robert Hugh Benson
Summary: [Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk is a 1997 memoir book by Aleksandr Korzhakov former head of Boris Yeltsins security. In it Korzhakov describes eleven years of his service and the personality of his patron first president of Russia. Yeltsin is portrayed as a heavy-drinker who hides his health problems. Korzhakov claims that he was offered 5 million for not publishing this book by business ...]
Genres: [fiction | religious | science fiction] Downloads: 219
Death Comes For The Archbishop
[english | 1927]Willa Cather
Summary: [The 2nd work sung in English.]
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Father Sergius
[english | 1873]Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Excerpts: [... acted otherwise. His father, a retired colonel of the Guards, had died when Stepan was twelve, and sorry as his mother was to part from her son, she ...... of their circle as possessed of such purity, and treated them accordingly. There was much that was false and harmful in this outlook, as concerning ...... did not reply but merely touched his hand. He understood that this meant: ...]
Genres: [fiction | religious | short stories] Downloads: 24
Hana
[english | 1916]Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Summary: [Zenchi Naigu is a Buddhist priest during Japans Heian period. He is ascribed the wisdom of zen but is more concerned with diminishing his ungainly large and dangling nose. The story is mainly a commentary on vanity and religion in a style and theme typical to Akutagawas work.1916(from Wikipedia)Note: You may need to embed a Japanese unicode font into this file in order to view it on your reader.]
Genres: [fiction | humorous | religious] Downloads: 402
La Barriere
[french | 1910]Rene Bazin
Summary: [The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836 was published in 1842 as Charles Darwins first monograph and set out his theory of the formation of coral reefs and atolls. He conceived of the idea during the voyage of the Beagle while still in South America before he ...]
Genres: [fiction | religious] Downloads: 184
La Faute De Labbe Mouret
[french | 1875]Emile Zola
Summary: [La Faute de labb Mouret est un roman dmile Zola paru en 1875 le cinquime volume de la srie les Rougon-Macquart. Faisant suite la Conqute de Plassans cest le second ouvrage de la srie qui trate du catholicisme le thme en est la vie dun prtre dchir entre sa vocation religieuse et lamour dune femme.]
Genres: [fiction | religious | romance] Downloads: 317
La Femme Pauvre
[french | 1897]Leon Bloy
Summary: [Ce roman dcrit la vie dune jeune femme pauvre illumine inspire par sa foi chrtienne. Sa mre une mgre sordide et son compagnon un ivrogne lobligent se prostituer pour subvenir leurs besoins. Elle se retrouve sous la protection dun peintre dans le milieu duquel elle approchera dautres artistes crivains enlumineur etc. Aprs la mort de son bienfaiteur elle pousera lenlumineur... Ce texte est un ...]
Genres: [fiction | religious] Downloads: 95
Le Desespere
[french | 1887]Leon Bloy
Excerpts: [... francs par an et je les d'epense. Par cons'equent, je suis pauvre, plus pauvre que vous, peut-^etre, a cause des charges 'ecrasantes qui r'esultent ...... yeux d'un bleu si naif qu'il avait toujours l'air de s'en servir pour la premi`ere fois, - 'etait surabondamment attest'ee par l'extraordinaire 'energie ...... conjecture, sans oblit'erer en lui la soumission filiale `a ...]
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Levangeliste
[french | 1892]Alphonse Daudet
Summary: [Ce roman a souvent t considr comme le premier en France consacr la religion protestante depuis le XVIIe sicle. Mme Hautmann pouse dun banquier se proccupe dvangliser les milieux difficiles. Aprs avoir form des jeunes filles au niveau des institutrices elle les envoie comme vanglistes dans ces endroits difficiles. Le matin elles apprennent lire et crire. Le soir elles organisent des sances ...]
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Lord Of The World
[english | 1907]Robert Hugh Benson
Summary: [In or about the year 2000 humanity has reached that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to the point where no one need work for a living while the social sciences have achieved a smoothly-running if almost unbearably sterile social order. Formal religious beliefs except for Catholicism have been ...]
Genres: [fiction | religious | science fiction] Downloads: 471
Navidad En Las Montanas
[spanish | 1871]Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Summary: [Altamirano presenta en su libro a dos figuras contrapuestas: un militar liberal ateo perteneciente a las fuerzas polticas triunfantes y a un cura catlico espaol que se muestra un poco temeroso por la hostilidad con que supona iba a ser tratado por el capitn anticlerical. El encuentro de los dos hombres se da en una aldea perdida en plena montaa cuando uno va de camino hacia su curato y el otro ms ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical | religious] Downloads: 271
Paradise Lost
[english | 1667]John Milton
Summary: [A Preface to Paradise Lost is one of C. S. Lewiss most famous scholarly works. The book had its genesis in Lewiss Ballard Matthews Lectures which he delivered at the University College of North Wales in 1941.]
Genres: [fiction | poetry | religious] Downloads: 151
Pearl Maiden
[english | 1901]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... and ample shields. Their combat was to last for twenty minutes by the sand- glass, when, unless they had shown cowardice, those who were left alive ...... she loved, and for the child that, she remembered thankfully, Anna had foretold would be born and live out its life. Then she remembered also that ...... seemed ill at ease but if my first words are true, this is true also, that ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | religious] Downloads: 307
Piers Plowman
[english | 1387]William Langland
Summary: [Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago 1912.]
Genres: [fiction | poetry | religious] Downloads: 10
Quo Vadis
[english | 1896]Henryk Sienkiewicz
Summary: [Quo Vadis A Narrative Of The Time Of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.]
Genres: [fiction | historical | religious] Downloads: 148
Thais
[french | 1890]Anatole France
Summary: [Thas tait ne de parents libres et pauvres adonns lidoltrie. Du temps quelle tait petite son pre gouvernait Alexandrie proche de la porte de la Lune un cabaret que frquentaient les matelots. Certains souvenirs vifs et dtachs lui restaient de sa premire enfance. Elle revoyait son pre assis langle du foyer les jambes croises grand redoutable et tranquille tel quun de ces vieux Pharaons que ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical | religious] Downloads: 97
The Innocence Of Father Brown
[english | 1911]Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Summary: [Twelve mysteries featuring Father Brown the short stumpy Catholic priest with uncanny insight into human evil.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | religious] Downloads: 3