Foxe's Book of Martyrs

“This is a book which will never die-one of the greatest Christian classics. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. Presented here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when `a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid...climbed the steep ascent of heaven, amid peril, toil, and pain.'

“After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early...