Spirituality & Faith

Journeys of faith, meaning, and transcendence.

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

A high-court judge in 19th-century Russia falls terminally ill and is forced to confront the emptiness of his outwardly successful life. Considered one of the greatest novellas ever written, it distils Tolstoy's moral philosophy into 90 pages.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Prince Myshkin, a Christ-like figure afflicted with epilepsy, returns to Russia after years in a Swiss sanatorium and enters a society that cannot accommodate his radical goodness. A study in the incompatibility of moral purity and the world.

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky's final novel centres on three brothers and the murder of their debauched father. A profound meditation on faith, doubt, free will, and moral responsibility that Freud called "the most magnificent novel ever written."

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