Book Title:  Introduction to the Spiritist Philosophy¹  
Author: Allan Kardec         

Description:        

From Book Cover² :

- Dialogues on the human personality and its survival, with a Christian perspective
- Straight talk about survival, past lives, spiritual religion, Jesus and the path of transformation

Excerpt from Preface to the Book, written by the AKES Translation & Editorial Team² :

This book is, for all purposes, a primer on the Spiritist Doctrine.  It contains two of Allan Kardec’s works: Qu’Est-Ce Que Le Spiritisme? (What is Spiritism?) and Spiritisme Reduit a sa plus Simple Expression (Spiritism in its Simplest Expression).  In the first work, Allan Kardec converses informally with three characters  ̶  a critic, a skeptic, and a priest ̶  introducing them to a view of life and spirituality centered on the individual.  The characters represent a composite of the adversarial stances Allan Kardec faced in Europe at a time when religious orthodoxy cast a dense shadow over people’s views of reality.  It is a light and engaging review of the Spiritist proposal detailed earlier in The Spirits’ Book.  The second work, though smaller in size, presents an insightful yet rich summary of the Spiritist wisdom.  Less descriptive and more inspirational, it is a soulful letter addressed to the heart of the reader.
 

¹ First Published in France in 1865
² as published in 2004 by the Allan Kardec Educational Society