Innocence Once Lost - Religious Classics Collection

Classic Visions of Faith, Doubt, Sin, Grace, and Redemption Across the Western ImaginationBy C. S. Lewis, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Anton Chekhov, John Bunyan, Voltaire, Lew Wallace, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Charles M. Sheldon, Henry Van Dyke, G. K. Chesterton, Grace Livingston Hill, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Henry Newman, Gustave Flaubert, Mark Twain, Robert Hugh Benson, Arthur Christopher Benson, Leo Tolstoy, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Prentice Mulford, Anatole France, Marie Corelli, Leonid Andreyev, George MacDonald, Elizabeth Miller, Eden Phillpotts

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Innocence Once Lost gathers religious classics around the fraught passage from moral simplicity to knowledge, sin, doubt, repentance, and grace. Its capacious selection moves among epic vision, allegory, parable, realist fiction, philosophical provocation, devotional reflection, satire, and romance, placing medieval and modern religious imaginations in productive tension. Pilgrimage narratives, infernal journeys, conversion dramas, and fables of social conscience stand out as recurring forms through which innocence is mourned, tested, and variously recovered. The volume's writers—drawn from Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, skeptical, and heterodox traditions—represent a remarkably broad international canon. Poets, novelists, preachers, essayists, and public intellectuals bring the ethical pressures of Reformation Christianity, Victorian spirituality, Russian religious realism, European modernity, and transatlantic social reform into conversation. Their differing commitments prevent religion from appearing monolithic: faith emerges as consolation and discipline, institutional inheritance and personal struggle, while doubt becomes an indispensable mode of moral inquiry. This collection is especially rewarding for readers seeking a comparative introduction to religious literature across periods and genres. It offers an educational encounter with competing accounts of guilt, freedom, suffering, and redemption, while its varied styles illuminate how literary form shapes belief. Read together, these works invite sustained dialogue about what is lost with innocence—and what spiritual, ethical, or imaginative resources may remain.

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Publish dateJun 4, 2021

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1Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)

2Inferno

3Canto I. The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil.

4Canto II. The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight.

5Canto III. The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron.

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6Canto IV. The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy.

7Canto V. The Second Circle: The Wanton. Minos. The Infernal Hurricane. Francesca da Rimini.

8Canto VI. The Third Circle: The Gluttonous. Cerberus. The Eternal Rain. Ciacco. Florence.

9Canto VII. The Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and the Prodigal. Plutus. Fortune and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle: The Irascible and the Sullen. Styx.

10Canto VIII. Phlegyas. Philippo Argenti. The Gate of the City of Dis.

11Canto IX. The Furies and Medusa. The Angel. The City of Dis. The Sixth Circle: Heresiarchs.

12Canto X. Farinata and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti. Discourse on the Knowledge of the Damned.

13Canto XI. The Broken Rocks. Pope Anastasius. General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions.

14Canto XII. The Minotaur. The Seventh Circle: The Violent. The River Phlegethon. The Violent against their Neighbours. The Centaurs. Tyrants.

15Canto XIII. The Wood of Thorns. The Harpies. The Violent against themselves. Suicides. Pier della Vigna. Lano and Jacopo da Sant' Andrea.

16Canto XIV. The Sand Waste and the Rain of Fire. The Violent against God. Capaneus. The Statue of Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers.

17Canto XV. The Violent against Nature. Brunetto Latini.

18Canto XVI. Guidoguerra, Aldobrandi, and Rusticucci. Cataract of the River of Blood.

19Canto XVII. Geryon. The Violent against Art. Usurers. Descent into the Abyss of Malebolge.

20Canto XVIII. The Eighth Circle, Malebolge: The Fraudulent and the Malicious. The First Bolgia: Seducers

21Canto XIX. The Third Bolgia: Simoniacs. Pope Nicholas III. Dante's Reproof of corrupt Prelates.

22Canto XX. The Fourth Bolgia: Soothsayers. Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, Manto, Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and Asdente. Virgil reproaches Dante's Pity. Mantua's Foundation.

23Canto XXI. The Fifth Bolgia: Peculators. The Elder of Santa Zita. Malacoda and other Devils.

24Canto XXII. Ciampolo, Friar Gomita, and Michael Zanche. The Malabranche quarrel.

25Canto XXIII. Escape from the Malabranche. The Sixth Bolgia: Hypocrites. Catalano and Loderingo. Caiaphas.

26Canto XXIV. The Seventh Bolgia: Thieves. Vanni Fucci. Serpents.

27Canto XXV. Vanni Fucci's Punishment. Agnello Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, Puccio Sciancato, Cianfa de' Donati, and Guercio Cavalcanti.

28Canto XXVI. The Eighth Bolgia: Evil Counsellors. Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses' Last Voyage.

29Canto XXVII. Guido da Montefeltro. His deception by Pope Boniface VIII.

30Canto XXVIII. The Ninth Bolgia: Schismatics. Mahomet and Ali. Pier da Medicina, Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born.

31Canto XXIX. Geri del Bello. The Tenth Bolgia: Alchemists. Griffolino d' Arezzo and Capocchino.

32Canto XXX. Other Falsifiers or Forgers. Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha, Adam of Brescia, Potiphar's Wife, and Sinon of Troy.

33Canto XXXI. The Giants, Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antaeus. Descent to Cocytus.

34Canto XXXII. The Ninth Circle: Traitors. The Frozen Lake of Cocytus. First Division, Caina: Traitors to their Kindred. Camicion de' Pazzi. Second Division, Antenora: Traitors to their Country. Dante questions Bocca degli Abati. Buoso da Duera.

35Canto XXXIII. Count Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri. The Death of Count Ugolino's Sons. Third Division of the Ninth Circle, Ptolomaea: Traitors to their Friends. Friar Alberigo, Branco d' Oria.

36Canto XXXIV. Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the Judecca: Traitors to their Lords and Benefactors. Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius. The Chasm of Lethe. The Ascent.

37Purgatorio

38I. The Shores of Purgatory. The Four Stars. Cato of Utica. The Rush.

39II. The Celestial Pilot. Casella. The Departure.

40III. Discourse on the Limits of Reason. The Foot of the Mountain. Those who died in Contumacy of Holy Church. Manfredi.

41IV. Farther Ascent. Nature of the Mountain. The Negligent, who postponed Repentance till the last Hour. Belacqua.

42V. Those who died by Violence, but repentant. Buonconte di Monfeltro. La Pia.

43VI. Dante's Inquiry on Prayers for the Dead. Sordello. Italy.

44VII. The Valley of Flowers. Negligent Princes.

45VIII. The Guardian Angels and the Serpent. Nino di Gallura. The Three Stars. Currado Malaspina.

46IX. Dante's Dream of the Eagle. The Gate of Purgatory and the Angel. Seven P's. The Keys.

47X. The Needle's Eye. The First Circle: The Proud. The Sculptures on the Wall.

48XI. The Humble Prayer. Omberto di Santafiore. Oderisi d' Agobbio. Provenzan Salvani.