Harold Bell Wright (1872–1944)
Autor/a de The Shepherd of the Hills
Sobre l'autor
Harold Bell Wright was born in Rome, New York on May 4, 1872. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a preacher. Between 1902 and 1942 he wrote 19 books, several stage plays, and numerous magazine articles. His books include That Printer of Udell's; The Shepherd of the Hills; The Calling of Dan mostra'n més Matthews; The Winning of Barbara Worth; and To My Sons. He died of bronchial pneumonia on May 24, 1944. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Harold Bell Wright
A Harold Bell Wright Trilogy: Shepherd of the Hills, The Calling of Dan Matthews, and God and the Groceryman (2007) 13 exemplars
THAT PRINTER OF UDELL'S, A STORY OF THE MIDDLE WEST. Illustrated by John Clitheroe Gilbert. 2 exemplars
The Re-Creation of Brain Kent 1 exemplars
The Winning of Barbra Worth 1 exemplars
The First Ten: A Harold Bell Wright Collection (10 Books including That Printer of Udell's, The Shepherd of the Hills,… (2015) 1 exemplars
The Least of These My Brothers 1 exemplars
Kun mies on mies 1 exemplars
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- Data de naixement
- 1872-05-04
- Data de defunció
- 1944-05-24
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Rome, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- La Jolla, California, USA
- Educació
- Hiram College
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The Shepherd of the Hills de Harold Bell Wright
OK inspirational story in Ozarks.
It took me awhile to get into this book. I'm glad I did. Many things interupted my reading, so I started again. This book does a fabulous job describing the beauty of a place. It is full of wonderful characters. Mr Wright is a great storyteller. Well tied up at the end.
Young Barbara is found in the dessert. She is adopted by Jefferson Worth. The story is about the winning of Barbara, so we get her romance. It is also about her father. But most of all it about the winning of the California dessert and creating a new place for people to live.
There is a reference in The Grapes of Wrath to this book. It seems that one of the characters found this book to have been life changing, or something.
So, I figured I should check it out. The author, Harold Bell Wright, after all, was at one time a well respected author. Other than Emily Bronte, perhaps (Wuthering Heights is total garbage and should be banned from libraries and book stores), most respected authors from olden times wrote books that are actually reasonably good.
This was an interesting book to read after The Grapes of Wrath. That book was about poor farmers leaving the dust bowl of the American midwest for the "garden of Eden" that was southern California. This book is sort of like a prequel. It deals with the turning the desert of Southern California into that Garden of Eden by way of diverting the Colorado River so as to irrigate the desert.
Well, that's the back story. The actual story is more like how a lovely young woman changed the lives of financeers and engineers by showing them that there was more to life than mere money...or something like that.
This is one of those in-the-seams books. Not quite good enough for 4*s, but too good for merely 3*s. It's a product of its times, which means moralizing, romantic and racist. Harold Bell Wright was a popular author back in the day, which means he knew how to tell a good story.
… (més)
Tom said, "Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms."
"I know that's right. That's Scripture, ain't it?"
"I guess so," said Tom. "I never could keep Scripture straight sence I read a book name' The Winning of Barbara Worth."
So, I figured I should check it out. The author, Harold Bell Wright, after all, was at one time a well respected author. Other than Emily Bronte, perhaps (Wuthering Heights is total garbage and should be banned from libraries and book stores), most respected authors from olden times wrote books that are actually reasonably good.
This was an interesting book to read after The Grapes of Wrath. That book was about poor farmers leaving the dust bowl of the American midwest for the "garden of Eden" that was southern California. This book is sort of like a prequel. It deals with the turning the desert of Southern California into that Garden of Eden by way of diverting the Colorado River so as to irrigate the desert.
Well, that's the back story. The actual story is more like how a lovely young woman changed the lives of financeers and engineers by showing them that there was more to life than mere money...or something like that.
This is one of those in-the-seams books. Not quite good enough for 4*s, but too good for merely 3*s. It's a product of its times, which means moralizing, romantic and racist. Harold Bell Wright was a popular author back in the day, which means he knew how to tell a good story.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 34
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 2,812
- Popularitat
- #9,130
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 52
- ISBN
- 324
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 2