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Travel with James Emery White through time and space to visit places like Martin Luther's Wittenburg, where the 95 theses were nailed to a church door, or The Eagle and Child pub, where C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the other Inklings met to write and dream together. You'll encounter many of the important spiritual sites of the history of Christianity and get a flavor for what it was like to be in that place at that time. White then takes you even...
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John Bunyan's beautiful and moving allegory of Christian, the Pilgrim, on his perilous journey to the Celestial City, has touched hearts and minds for more than three hundred years. Filled with unforgettable characters, Evangelist, Charity, Hypocrisy, Goodwill, Obstinate, and Mr. Worldly Wiseman, this wonderful story offers a unique insight into the Christian life, its joys and trials, its opportunities and struggles. Max McClean's lively, heartfelt...
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"Students with little or no prior knowledge of Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales, or the world in which they were produced, will welcome this introduction. Not only does it paint a portrait of the poet against the background of his time, it also considers the major preoccupations of the tales, and provides students with a critical framework for thinking creatively about them." "The book provides the ideal aid to understanding and appreciating Geoffrey...
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The Pilgrim's Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan, is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, and has been translated into more than two hundred languages. Now it is retold and shortened in graphic novel form for children and young adults who want to know Bunyan's story but who might well find the language of the original difficult to understand.
In Volume 2, Christian meets Faithful, also...
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The Pilgrim's Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan, is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, and has been translated into more than two hundred languages. Now it is retold and shortened in graphic novel form for children and young adults who want to know Bunyan's story but who might well find the language of the original difficult to understand.
In Volume 1, Christian, an everyman character,...
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A reference that examines the various vocations of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Each expert chapter describes a particular pilgrim's specific funtion in 14th-century Englans. The emphasis is on the historical position of the various vocations foreworded in the "General Prologue." Other considerations are the link between the profession and tale in terms of the pilgrim's character as defined in the "General Prologue", and the ways in...