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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

"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... Read Full Overview

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

. . . 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... Read Full Overview