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3 unusual facts about The Way of a Pilgrim


The Way of a Pilgrim

In a positive introduction to the translation by Olga Savin, Thomas Hopko describes the book as a "spiritual classic" which teaches that ceaseless prayer is not only the goal, and the one thing worth living for, but is "life itself."

Therefore, it was "between those two dates," 1853 and 1861, that the Pilgrim arrived at Irkutsk and found a spiritual father, two of the major events in the Pilgrim's narrative.

The Way of a Pilgrim is the focus of the story "Franny" from the 1961 collection of short stories, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.



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