The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1201–1300
1 work
c. 1220–1226
Latin
Francis of Assisi · 1181/82–1226
Twenty-eight short sayings on obedience, on knowledge that puffs up, on the friar who is disturbed by anything at all, and on true and perfect joy.
1601–1700
1 work
c. 1670; published 1908
English
Thomas Traherne · c. 1636–1674
Meditations on the goodness of creation and the recovery of a child's vision, in which the corn is orient and immortal wheat that never should be reaped.
1901–2000
1 work
1908
English
G. K. Chesterton · 1874–1936
Chesterton's account of how he tried to invent a philosophy of his own and discovered he had rediscovered Christianity — argued through paradox, fairy tales, and the claim that orthodoxy is the wildest of the options rather than the safest.
3 of 1774 works