Papini, once a famous Florentine sceptic, tells the life of Jesus from the stable at Bethlehem to the cross and the resurrection with fierce conviction, pausing over the ox and the ass, the Sermon on the Mount, the parables, marriage and the state, and the meaning of each scene for modern people. Dorothy Canfield Fisher made the English translation.
An international bestseller of the early 1920s, intense and personal rather than scholarly. Download the free EPUB.