Explore religious and spiritual writings across traditions, including works about belief, practice, interpretation, and reflection. This collection currently contains 12 titles in Literra’s catalogue.
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A Versailles Christmas-Tide presents Christmas through the atmosphere of Versailles, using the palace, its traditions, history, architecture, and surrounding culture as the backdrop for a seasonal journey. Versailles carries the weight of centuries of French royal history, so even a festive
The first volume gathers Vivekananda's early lectures and writings on Vedanta, Hindu philosophy, religion, spirituality, and the practical application of spiritual ideas
Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven follows a rough, irreverent sea captain who dies and discovers that the afterlife does not look much like the tidy religious picture he expected. Twain uses the journey through heaven as a comic device for attacking human assumptions about religion, status
In Defence of Harriet Shelley is Mark Twain’s forceful attempt to challenge the romanticized reputation of Percy Bysshe Shelley by drawing attention to the treatment of his first wife, Harriet. Twain’s central concern is the gap between literary genius and moral behavior
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories gathers children’s tales in which kindness, imagination, loneliness, family, and moral growth shape the adventures of young protagonists. Frances Hodgson Burnett understood that children are capable of strong emotional worlds
Maria Mitchell’s life is the story of a woman who became one of America’s best-known astronomers at a time when scientific careers were overwhelmingly male. She discovered a comet as a young woman and later became the first professor hired by Vassar College, where she taught astronomy and
Augustine responds to the fall of Rome with a wide-ranging account of history, political community, human desire and Christian theology
A translated compilation of Ramakrishna's conversations and teachings, centered on spiritual practice, devotion, mystical experience, and the possibility of approaching the divine through different paths
Ellen G. White presents a Christian historical and prophetic narrative focused on the conflict between religious faith and perceived spiritual opposition, moving through church history toward an apocalyptic conclusion
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 2 gathers accounts of major events from the rise of ancient Greece through the Roman world and toward the Christian era. The series was designed to make history readable through dramatic episodes rather than continuous academic narrative
William James studies religion through individual experience, examining conversion, mystical states, saintliness, doubt, and the psychological effects of religious life rather than institutional doctrine alone
When the Saints Go Marching In is a religiously themed book built around the imagery of saints entering the presence of God, a metaphor drawn from Christian hymn tradition and the hope of spiritual liberation. The phrase itself became famous through the hymn and through later popular music, but
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