Religion in Literature

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The Virtues
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Palace Thief, E. Canin
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
The Man Who Planted Trees, The Chosen, Cancer Ward* --excerpts Selected poetry

Suffering and Evil
Barabbas, P Lagerkvist
Night, Elie Wiesel
“JB” Archibald MacLeish
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
The Poorhouse Fair; The Human Comedy; A Bed by the Window*: excerpts

Freedom and Responsibility
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Three by Flannery O’Connor, O’Connor
East of Eden*, excerpt

The Inward Journey
The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Should Wizard Hit Mommy? *—excerpt
Children of Gebelaawi, N. Mahfouz
Selected poems

Death
A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
“Pigeon Feathers” and “The Open Boat”*

The Apocalyptic Vision
The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis

Coda
“Emperor of the Air”*
Selected poems

* From Many Rooms