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INTRODUCTION BY MADELEINE L'ENGLE
EDITORS' PREFACE
Fashioning the Soul: The Shape of Spiritual Autobiography

PART ONE: WANDERERS & SEEKERS

KING DAVID, THE PSALMIST
From the Psalms

SAINT AUGUSTINE
From The Confessions

LEO TOLSTOY
From A Confession

EMILY DICKINSON
Selected Poems

JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS
From En Route

JOHANNES JØRGENSEN
From His Autobiography

SERGEI BULGAKOV
From His Autobiography

THOMAS MERTON
From The Seven Storey Mountain

MADELEINE L'ENGLE
From A Circle of Quiet

CHARLES W. COLSON
From Born Again

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
From Soul on Fire

KATHLEEN NORRIS
From Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

PART TWO: PILGRIMS & MISSIONARIES

MOSES
From Exodus and Deuteronomy

SAINT PAUL
From His Letters

MARTIN LUTHER
From His Writings

SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
From Saint Ignatius's Own Story

RABBI LEON MODENA
From The Life of Judah

ANNE BRADSTREET
A Letter to My Children

ARCHPRIEST AVVAKUM
From The Life of Archpriest Avvakum by Himself

JOHN BUNYAN
From Grace Abounding

JONATHAN EDWARDS
Personal Narrative

JOHN WESLEY
From The Journal of John Wesley

DAVID LIVINGSTONE
From Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

ANONYMOUS RUSSIAN PILGRIM
From The Way of a Pilgrim

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
From Maude

ALBERT SCHWEITZER
From Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography

DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD
From Markings

PART THREE: MYSTICS & VISIONARIES

RABI'A AL-'ADAWIYA
From Her Prayers

DANTE ALIGHIERI
From La vita nuova

JULIAN OF NORWICH
From Showings

SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
From The Book of Her Life

SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS
From On a Dark Night

JOHN DONNE
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Dedication, First Meditation and Prayer, Number One

BROTHER LAWRENCE
From The Practice of the Presence of God

SAINT MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE
From Her Letters

JEANE MARIE DE LA MOTTE-GUYON
From Her Autobiography

FRANCIS THOMPSON
The Hound of Heaven

HENRIETTA GANT
Narrative of Her Baptism

SAINT THÉRÈSE DE LISIEUX
From The Story of a Soul

ANNIE DILLARD
From Holy the Firm

PART FOUR: PHILOSOPHERS & SCHOLARS

SOCRATES
From The Apology

MARCUS AURELIUS
From Meditations

ABÜ HAMID MUHAMMAD GHAZALI (ALGAZALI)
From Deliverance from Error

PETRARCH
The Ascent of Mount Ventoux

SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ
First Dream

BLAISE PASCAL
The Memorial

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
From The Autobiography

SAMUEL JOHNSON
Prayers and Meditations

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
From Apologia pro vita sua

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
Selected Poems

PAUL CLAUDEL
My Conversion

T. S. ELIOT
Ash-Wednesday

C. S. LEWIS
From Surprised by Joy

VIKTOR E. FRANKL
From Experiences in a Concentration Camp

SIMONE WEIL
A Spiritual Autobiography

SHELDON VANAUKEN
From A Severe Mercy

DENISE LEVERTOV
Selected Poems

FLANNERY O'CONNOR
From Her Letters