The Book

The Book

The Book can refer to:

* The Christian Bible, especially a Tyndale House edition of the New Living Translation published as "The Book."
* The Qur’ān (Arabic: القرآن ‎ al-qur'ān, literally "the recitation) is the central religious text of Islam
* The eponymous electronic book in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
* Goldstein's book, "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism", from George Orwell's novel "1984", which is commonly referred to as "The Book"
* Mathematician Paul Erdős' concept of "The Book" in which God maintains the perfect proofs for mathematical theorems. See Proofs from THE BOOK.
* "The Book", an unfinished, fragmentary short story by H. P. Lovecraft
* A term often applied to Meher Baba's missing book
* The second part of The Revelation of Arès


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