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.
The conversations and letters of Brother Lawrence, a lay brother who worked for decades 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.