A devotional manual counseling humility, detachment from the world, and the inward following of Christ.
Books that mention The Imitation of Christ (10)
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: “but _Thomas à Kempis?_—the name had come across her in her reading, and she felt the satisfaction, which every one knows, of getting some ideas to attach to a name”
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert: “a copy of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ which was lying on the table between an _Imitation_ and an _Almanach de Gotha_”
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson: “a crucifix, a bust of the late Pope, the Imitation in French, a book of religious meditations, and the Life of Elizabeth Seton”
The Elm-Tree on the Mall by Anatole France: “a copy of the Imitation de Jésus-Christ, bound in purple and gold”
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: “"Nor this." ... "The Imitation of Christ," pulled from Mustapha Mond's forbidden-books safe.”
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “a cache that included The Imitation of Christ, The Confessions of St. Augustine”
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens: “It was the impossibility of following this directive that hit me first, even before the realization that the whole thing was borrowed from what Christians called "The Imitation of Christ."”
Life of Pi by Yann Martel: “"Last week he finished a book called The Imitation of Christ" "The Imitation of Christ!”
Roderick Hudson by Henry James: “I read the Imitation and the Life of Saint Catherine.”
The Martyr by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “One who has entered the way of goodness will sense a mysterious sweetness in the teaching. (Keichō translation of The Imitation of Christ, Imitatione Christi) [auto-translated]”