It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested couples—f...
The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his hero, Sam...
The Actes and Monuments, popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian Jo...
It begins with early Christian martyrs, and continues with the Inquisition, Wycliffe, and the Marian Persecutions.Roman Catholics often view Foxe's r...
The full title of this book, published in 1909, is The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas. As early as the second century, numero...
Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" the subject more or l...
The Sikh religion is a fascinating and complex faith, and Volume 4 of Max Arthur Macauliffe's classic work provides a comprehensive overview of the li...
Житія и похвалы святыхъ подобятся свѣтлостію звѣздамъ: якоже бо звѣзды положеніемъ на небеси утвержденны суть, всю же поднебесную просвѣщаютъ, тыяжде...
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This book explores the lives of twenty prominent figures in Christian history, spanning from the 3rd century AD to the Reformation. It provides insigh...
This book, 'Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints,' presents concise biographies of Catholic saints, organized chronologically by their feast days. It...
This book, 'Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints', provides a comprehensive collection of short biographies of Catholic saints, focusing on those cele...
