Desert: A legend

The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grand Inquisitor is a dramatic episode taken from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s final novel, The Brothers…

The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan

John Bunyan

The work is a Christian allegorical narrative that begins with a long, self‑referential preface in which the…

The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul

Gustave Flaubert

The work is a biographical‑fictional meditation on the life of Saint Antony, the Egyptian hermit of the…

Parables from flowers

Gertrude P. Dyer

Gertrude P. Dyer’s Parables from Flowers is a Christian‑themed allegory told through the lives of birds…

Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative that places its opening deep in the desert landscape of the Near…

Burl

Morrison Heady

The work is a nineteenth‑century Christian adventure set on the Kentucky frontier, framed by a Methodist…