I continue my goal of collecting and reading the original editions of Wright’s 19 books. His most famous, The Shepherd of the Hills, was his second book. His writings cover a period from 1903 to 1942. These are older personal interest novels written from a broad Christian point of view and set in rural America. […]
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Book Author: Wright, Harold Bell
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Older Novels Two books by Harold Bell Wright were Their Yesterdays, the most philosophical of his books yet, and The Winning of Barbara Worth, the most interesting yet. I read The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr. since I saw it constantly at used book stores, and enjoyed it. My son-in-law gave me my first Louis […]
Their Yesterdays
Older Novels Two books by Harold Bell Wright were Their Yesterdays, the most philosophical of his books yet, and The Winning of Barbara Worth, the most interesting yet. I read The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr. since I saw it constantly at used book stores, and enjoyed it. My son-in-law gave […]
The Man Who Was Thursday
I found this little book in a used bookstore and decided that it was time to read another novel. Though I have read G.K.C. as a philosopher and cultural watcher (from a century parallel to ours), I had never read his point of view put in novel form. The story is set in old England […]
The Calling of Dan Matthews
As I plod on in my determination to read this Ozark pastor and author, I find myself both blessed and puzzled. Blessed because I enjoy the stories of rural America 100 years ago, told from a Christian perspective with a Christian plot. Puzzled because, especially in this book, Wright stretches far to highlight the hypocritical […]
The Uncrowned King
I mentioned in a previous review that I have been collecting and reading Wright’s books. Wright is the author of the well-known Shepherd Of The Hills although that was not necessarily his best seller. The Uncrowned King (My wife gave me an autographed copy for my birthday) is a short allegory of the Christian walk […]
That Printer of Udell’s
If we all have peculiar interests, one of mine is collecting the 19 first edition books of Harold Bell Wright—the Ozark author of Shepherd of the Hills. The Shepherd was his second book, the first was That Printer, printed in 1903. It is a fictional, yet real life, story of a young man who comes […]