Free religious life books

These books are about people who give their lives to a faith. Priests, nuns, monks, rabbis and imams appear in memoirs and novels set in convents, monasteries and parishes. They are stories of vocation, discipline, doubt and community, and they have a quiet fascination. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.

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Adam Bede
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Free

Adam Bede

George Eliot

1873 · 1878 edition

456 pages

Martin Chuzzlewit
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Martin Chuzzlewit

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Charles Dickens

Published 1870

1250 pages

Doctor Thorne
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Doctor Thorne

Anthony Trollope

Published 1879

462 pages

The monastery
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The monastery

Walter Scott

1877 · 1893 edition

372 pages

Lourdes
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Lourdes

Emile Zola

Published 1894

550 pages

Sex and spirit
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Sex and spirit

Robert Barzan

Published 1995

144 pages