THE ATHENAEUMThe Imitation of ChristThomas à Kempis
Philosophy
The Imitation of Christ
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA small book of devotion written in Latin in the Low Countries early in the fifteenth century, and generally credited to Thomas à Kempis, a canon of Mount Saint Agnes near Zwolle. It asks its reader to give up the self and the world, in short chapters that are said to have been read by more Christians than any book but the Bible. In The Mill on the Floss, Maggie Tulliver finds an old copy in which “some hand, now forever quiet, had made at certain passages strong pen-and-ink marks.”
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 10 min
- Where to find it
- The Room of Books Within Books
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1653. In the public domain in the United States.