The Library
1577 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.
201–300
1 work
c. 260–320
Greek
Anonymous
A romance in which young Clement follows Peter around the eastern Mediterranean, debates Simon Magus, and gradually recognises his own scattered family — carrying a distinctly Jewish-Christian theology inside the plot.
1201–1300
1 work
c. 1283
Catalan
Ramon Llull · c. 1232–c. 1316
A young man rises from hermit to abbot to bishop to pope, reforms the whole church, and then resigns to become a contemplative — with the Book of the Lover and the Beloved embedded in it.
1801–1900
1 work
1880
Russian
Bratya Karamazovy
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1821–1881
A patricide and its aftermath in a provincial Russian town, carrying inside it the century's fiercest indictment of God over the suffering of children and, set against it, a monk who answers with love rather than argument.
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