A new translation from the Latin, in modern English. Pocket-sized.
Thomas à Kempis wrote this around 1420. It has been in print ever since and is often called the most widely read Christian book after the Bible.
This is a new translation from the original Latin into modern English — no archaic constructions to climb over before you get to what he actually said — in a 110 × 160 mm pocket edition made to be carried rather than shelved.
The chapters are short, most of them a page or two. That's the point. It isn't a book you read once and finish. It's one you open before Mass, during Adoration, or for five minutes at the end of the day, and find it has something to say about the day you actually had.
À Kempis doesn't flatter the reader. He writes about self-knowledge, and about the distance between what we say we want and what we do. Six hundred years on, that's still why people keep him within reach.
What's inside
A new modern English translation from the Latin
Translator's preface
A short guide to reading it devotionally rather than straight through
The complete four books:
Helpful Counsels of the Spiritual Life
Directives for the Interior Life
On Interior Consolation
On the Blessed Sacrament
The edition
110 × 160 mm pocket format
364 pages
Printed and posted from Durham
"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." — John 8:12
A new translation from the Latin, in modern English. Pocket-sized.
Thomas à Kempis wrote this around 1420. It has been in print ever since and is often called the most widely read Christian book after the Bible.
This is a new translation from the original Latin into modern English — no archaic constructions to climb over before you get to what he actually said — in a 110 × 160 mm pocket edition made to be carried rather than shelved.
The chapters are short, most of them a page or two. That's the point. It isn't a book you read once and finish. It's one you open before Mass, during Adoration, or for five minutes at the end of the day, and find it has something to say about the day you actually had.
À Kempis doesn't flatter the reader. He writes about self-knowledge, and about the distance between what we say we want and what we do. Six hundred years on, that's still why people keep him within reach.
What's inside
A new modern English translation from the Latin
Translator's preface
A short guide to reading it devotionally rather than straight through
The complete four books:
Helpful Counsels of the Spiritual Life
Directives for the Interior Life
On Interior Consolation
On the Blessed Sacrament
The edition
110 × 160 mm pocket format
364 pages
Printed and posted from Durham
"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." — John 8:12
