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The conversations and letters of Brother Lawrence, a lay brother who worked for many years in a Paris monastery kitchen, gathered after his death. A short classic on practising God's presence in every ordinary moment, cherished by Catholics and Protestants alike.
Lewis's 1960 book, grown from radio talks recorded in 1958: affection, friendship, eros and charity. Each natural love is a gift of God, yet turns destructive once made a god; only taken up into divine love does it become what it was meant to be.
Written by a tinker imprisoned for preaching, the great allegory of the Christian life (1678; part two 1684): Christian flees the City of Destruction, loses his burden at the cross, and passes Vanity Fair and Doubting Castle to the Celestial City. First translated into Chinese in 1853.