Found 13,640 results for "martyrs"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished...
Rashomon and other stories
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
YES, SIR. Certainly, it was I who found the body.
Utopia
by Thomas More
THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...
Actes and monuments
by John Foxe
In Matthew 16:18, it is recorded that Jesus told His disciples, "I will build My church, and the gates of hell [Hades] s...
Fox's book of martyrs
by John Foxe, Foxe, John, and King, Marie Gentert (editor)
In Matthew 16:18, it is recorded that Jesus told His disciples, "I will build My church, and the gates of hell [Hades] s...
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...
Legenda aurea
by Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton
The Lord's advent is celebrated for four weeks to signify that his coming is fourfold: he came to us in the flesh, he co...
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Poems (Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and ...
by William Shakespeare
Many editions of Shakespeare's poems, and of the Sonnets in particular, present themselves as having solved some or all ...
One Dark Window
by Rachel Gillig
I was nine the first time the Physicians came to the house.
Marius the Epicurean
by Walter Pater
As, in the triumph of Christianity, the old religion lingered latest in the country, and died out at last as but paganis...
In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
She is plucking her bird of paradise of its dead branches, leaning around the plant every time she hears a car.
Tress of the Emerald Sea
by Brandon Sanderson
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN, there was a girl who lived upon a rock.
