Chronicles the life of Siddharta Gautama, known as the Buddha, and examines his own historical context and his place in the history of human spirituality.
Chronicles the life of twentieth-century writer Marcel Proust and discusses his personal life, his writings, his childhood, his sexuality, and other related topics.
Chronicles the life of patriot, mystic, and activist Simone Weil, discussing her belief in the redemptive value of manual labor, her religious beliefs, her battle against anorexia, and her personal relationships.
Profiles Rosa Parks, who, in 1955 Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, and thereby sparked the bus boycott that made Martin Luther King, Jr., famous and helped end the Jim Crow laws.
A biography of English novelist Jane Austen, providing information about her early family life, her broken engagement, her relationship with her sister, and her writing process.
Provides a concise history of the Catholic Church and the papacy, and chronicles the brief but productive reign of Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli as Pope John XXIII in the mid-twentieth century.
Presents the biography of nineteenth-century French Carmelite nun Saint Therese of Lisieux, also known as the Little Flower of Jesus, who devoted her short life to obedience and service to God.
