The classic novel featuring a young preacher who courts a woman.
In this sequel to Wright's best-selling Shepherd of the Hills, also published by Pelican, Dan Matthews, son of Sammy and Young Matt, becomes the new minister of the Midwestern town of Corinth. The peaceful town is turned askew when the town's new nurse, the minister's romantic...
In this sequel to Wright's best-selling
Shepherd of the Hills, also published by Pelican, Dan Matthews,
son of Sammy and Young Matt, becomes the new minister of the Midwestern town of
Corinth. The peaceful town is turned askew when the town's new nurse, the
minister's...
Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and nonfiction. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he had a very successful career; he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million...
"The Calling of Dan Matthews" by Harold Bell Wright is a poignant and thought-scary novel that explores themes of religion, redemption, and the human situation. Wright's paintings facilities across the man or woman of Dan Matthews, a young minister who grapples with the challenges...
In this sequel to Wright's best-selling Shepherd of the Hills, also published by Pelican, Dan Matthews, son of Sammy and Young Matt, becomes the new minister of the Midwestern town of Corinth. The peaceful town is turned askew when the town's new nurse, the minister's romantic...
"And because the town of this story is what it is, there came to dwell in it a Spirit-a strange, mysterious power-playful, vicious, deadly; a Something to be at once feared and courted; to be denied-yet confessed in the denial; a deadly enemy, a welcome friend, an all-powerful...
. . . This story began in the Ozark Mountains. It follows the trail that is nobody knows how old. But mostly this story happened in Corinth, a town of the middle class in a Middle Western state. There is nothing peculiar about Corinth. The story might have...
The Calling of Dan Matthews is a novel by American author Harold Bell Wright. It tells the story of Dan Matthews, a young man who is called to become a minister in a small town in the Ozarks. Matthews struggles with the challenges of his new role, including conflicts with his...