Journey to the celestial city: glimpses of heaven from great literary classics

How writers write about heaven : the rhetoric of transcendence / by Leland Ryken

Augustine: The City of God (426) ; St. Augustine's City of God and the postmodern pilgrimage / by Gene Edward Veith

Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy (1321) ; Dante's vision of heaven / by Barbara Reynolds

John Milton: Paradise lost (1667) ; finding heaven in Milton's Paradise lost / by Leland Ryken

John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's progress (1678); in this world and the next: Bunyan's The Pilgrim's progress / by E. Beatrice Batson

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719) ; the story of Robinson Crusoe and the stories of scripture / by Daniel E. Ritchie

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin (1852); walking through fire and singing of heaven: Harriet Beecher Stowe's vision of heaven / by Manfred Siebald

George MacDonald: Phantastes (1858) and Lilith (1890) ; a great good is coming: George MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith / by Rolland Hein

C. S. Lewis: The great divorce (1946) : longing for heaven: C.S. Lewis's The great divorce / by Wayne Martindale.