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The Moral of the Story

The Moral of the Story

Horror Classics Detective Fiction Crime Fiction Gothic Fiction

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jerry Newcombe, Lewis Carroll, William Trevor, William Shakespeare, Samuel Kamaleson, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl

Authors: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jerry Newcombe, Lewis Carroll, William Trevor, William Shakespeare, Samuel Kamaleson, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Part I: The imitation of Christ -- I. Jesus Christ: His birth (Christmas-related stories) -- The revolt in heaven / Samuel Kamaleson -- "Why the chimes rang" / Raymond Macdonald Alden -- "If He had not come" / Nan F. Weeks -- "The innkeeper of Bethlehem" / J.W.G. Ward -- "Merry Tifton!" / D. James Kennedy -- II. Jesus Christ: His life and ministry -- "The creation" / James Weldon Johnson -- "The man born blind" / J.W.G. Ward -- The startling painting / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- "Alive" / Max Lucado -- The story of the faithful friend and its exegesis in a medieval sermon / Summary of Everyman -- III. Imitating Christ -- The deaths of the apostles / John Foxe -- "In the arena" / Chuck Colson -- "The ministry of Edward Spencer" / Jerry Newcombe -- "Father Zossima's brother" / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- In His steps / Charles M. Sheldon. Part II: The seven deadly sins -- I. Pride -- The temptation of Christ / from the Gospel According to Luke (NIV) -- The parable of the Pharisee and the Publican / from the Gospel According to Luke (NIV) -- The casket scenes from The Merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Ben Franklin on pride / from Poor Richard's Almanack -- Proclamation of a national fast day / Abraham Lincoln -- Our solid American citizen / Ralph Linton -- "The teapot" / Hans Christian Andersen -- "The good things of life" / Arthur Gordon -- II. Greed -- Naboth's vineyard / from the Book of I Kings (NIV) -- The healing of Naaman the Leper and the greed of Gehazi / retold by Jesse Hurlbut -- The widow's mite / from the Gospel According to Luke (NIV) -- Ananias and Sapphira / from the Book of Acts (NIV) -- "The stolen fruit" / from The Confessions of St. Augustine -- "The pardoner's tale" / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Ben Franklin on greed / from Poor Richard's Almanack -- III. Envy -- Can and Abel / from the Book of Genesis (NIV) -- Saul and David / retold by Jesse Hurlbut -- "Little Snowdrop" / a classic fairytale, retold by Dinah Craik -- Iago's intentions / by William Shakespeare -- "Headmaster Bard" / by Bjornstjerne Bjornson, translated by Kirsti Saebo Newcombe -- IV. Anger -- The parable of the unmerciful servant / from the Gospel According to Matthew (NIV) -- Michael LeFan on anger / Michael LeFan -- "[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)" / by Edgar Allen Poe -- "The first crèche" / Arthur Gordon -- "The hammer of God" / G.K. Chesterton -- "Tropical paradise lost and found" / retold by Jerry Newcombe -- V. Lust -- The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah / from the Book of Genesis (NIV) -- Joseph and Potiphar's wife / from the Book of Genesis (NIV) -- David and Bathsheba / retold by Jesse Hurlbut -- Amnon and Tamar / from the Book of 2 Samuel (NIV) -- The Roman feast / by Henryk Stenkiewicz, translated by Jeremiah Curtin -- St. Augustine's struggle with lust / from The Confessions of St. Augustine -- "Alypius and the gladiators" / from The Confessions of St. Augustine -- Ben Franklin on lust / from Poor Richard's Almanack -- "Freed from lust" / Steve Gallagher -- VI. Gluttony -- The Bible on gluttony -- Ben Franklin on gluttony / from Poor Richard's Almanack -- The disappearance of Augustus Gloop / Roald Dahl -- Forty-one sausages in one sitting / William Trevor -- "Lenny's las meal" / Robert Newcombe -- "Betty and the pigs" / Lily Guzman -- VII. Sloth -- Ben Franklin on sloth / from Poor Richard's Almanack -- A tale of two diaries -- "How Stonewall Jackson got his name / Robert Folsom -- My intense longing to learn to read / Booker T. Washington -- The actor who gave his all / Lee Buck with Dick Schneider -- The diligence of a polio victim / Michael LeFan. Part III: Faith, hope, and love -- I. Peter walks on the water / from the Gospel According to Matthew (NIV) -- Captured by giant despair / John Bunyan -- "The celestial railroad" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- "God lives" / Hans Christian Andersen -- The conversion of Adoniram Judson / E. Myers Harrison -- II. Hope -- "The impotent man of Bethesda" / J.W.G. Ward -- The healing of the leper women / Lew Wallace -- "I heard the bells on Christmas day" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The cave scene / C.S. Lewis -- "Go down death -- a funeral sermon" / James Weldon Johnson -- Though he slay me / B.J. Hoff -- III. Love -- "The prodigal son" / retold by Charles Dickens -- "Terje Vigen" / Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kirsti Saebo Newcombe -- "The mansion" / Henry Van Dyke -- "First hunt" / Arthur Gordon. Part IV: Just for fun -- Alice and the Cheshire-cat / Lewis Carroll -- "Peter Dass outwits the devil " / retold by Kirsti Saebo Newcombe -- "Reinert meets the cannibals" / retold by Kirsti Saebo Newcombe -- "the cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- "The innkeeper's wise daughter" / Peninnah Schram -- Appendix: The most wonderful story.