Best of
Medieval

1909

The Confessions/The Imitation of Christ (Harvard Classics, Vol 7)


Charles William Eliot - 1909
    Augustine, of one of the great Fathers of the Church, traces a dialogue with his God and a journey toward rising above one's self. The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis, is a pastiche of biblical and Catholic passages attributed to a humble scribe, and remains the most influential of Christian devotional writings.

A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China


L. Cranmer-Byng - 1909
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