Genre :: Religion (19 books)

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  #323

  Death Comes for the Archbishop

  by Willa Cather

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."

  

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  #345

  The Warden

  by Anthony Trollope

  (3 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ---; let us call it Barchester."

  

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  #353

  The Heart of the Matter

  by Graham Greene

  (1 Review)

  61 Points

  "Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork.Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the..."

  

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  #380

  Paradise Lost

  by John Milton

  (5 Reviews)

  54 Points

  

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  #419

  The Satanic Verses

  by Salman Rushdie

  (4 Reviews)

  46 Points

  "To be born again " sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."

  

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  #482

  The Power and the Glory

  by Graham Greene

  (2 Reviews)

  29 Points

  "Mr. Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust."

  

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  #505

  Jayber Crow

  by Wendell Berry

  (1 Review)

  24 Points

  "I never put up a barber pole or a sign or even gave my shop a name."

  

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  #516

  Popol Vuh

  by Anonymous

  (2 Reviews)

  22 Points

  

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  #570

  The Varieties of Religious Experience

  by William James

  (1 Review)

  12 Points

  "This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh.It is with no small amount of trepidation..."

  

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