THE ORIGINAL MASTERPIECE Inferno (Italian for “Hell”) is the ﬁrst part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.

Dante: Inferno

Literature & Fiction

DANTE

Poetry

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Agricola and Germania

History

Tacitus

Ancient Civilizations

“For Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee.” CONFESSIONS is an autobiographical work by St. Augustine of Hippo written in between AD 397 and AD 398. The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1,000 years of the Middle Ages. It provides a record of St. Augustine’s development of thought and is the most complete record of any single person from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant theological work, featuring spiritual meditations and insights.

Confessions

Biographies & Memoirs

AUGUSTINE, SAINT

Leaders & Notable People

NEW EDITION This edition from Benton Press includes The Practices of the Presence of God as well as The Spiritual Maxims of Brother Lawrence. BROTHER LAWRENCE of the Resurrection (c. 1614 – 12 February 1691) served as a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery in Paris. HE is remembered for the intimacy he expressed concerning his relationship to God as recorded in the classic Christian text, The Practice of the Presence of God.

The Practice of the Presence of God

Religion & Spirituality

Lawrence, Brother

Christian Books & Bibles

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived…."    WALDEN  by Henry David Thoreau is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.   CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE is an essay in which Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.   This edition presents these two classic works by Thoreau in one book.

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Politics & Social Sciences

Thoreau, Henry David`

Philosophy

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