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The Happiest Man on Earth

History & Schools of Thought

What does it take to hold on to hope when everything has been taken away? In *The Happiest Man on Earth*, Eddie Jaku recounts his extraordinary journey as a Jewish teenager who survived the horrors of Nazi persecution, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and a forced death march during World War II. Despite unimaginable loss, Eddie chose to build his life around gratitude, kindness, friendship, and hope. Told with warmth and honesty, his memoir reflects on the experiences that shaped his outlook and offers timeless lessons about resilience, forgiveness, and finding beauty in life after profound suffering.

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The Great Divorce

By C. S. Lewis

History & Schools of Thought

In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is a starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis’s revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis’s The Great Divorce will change the way we think about good and evil.