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God's Prisoner: A Story (1899)

John Oxenham

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Description:A scarce antiquarian book. Link: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL271697...Description copied from The Bookman, May 1899, Page 281. A blacker tale than this is in the beginning, and for perhaps two thirds of its length, rarely falls under the reviewer’s eyes. In the opening pages a murder is committed under particularly atrocious circumstances, and the gruesome details are described with horrible minuteness. It would be unendurable reading but for the good quality of its writing, a strength and firmness which give a certain dignity, lifting the work out of the list of the penny dreadful. This straightforward, calm, manner continues to hold the wild yarn steady through the improbable events following the initial tragedy, making it appear within bounds of possibility that ships could be lost and right man saved – ad infinitum – as the progress of the story seems to require. This is the impression of the first two thirds of the book. Afterward the work begins to take on a character, to grow firm and rather psychological. The murder – whose soul is God’s Prisoner, but whose body is free – wanders from side to side, and from end to end of the earth, seeking the peace that can never be found. But, after a time, he does find a measure of relief in doing good and in self-sacrifice – where real happiness must perhaps always be found. Toward the close of the story love comes for the first time into the murderer’s life, “and the heart of the man, with its fuller knowledge and its more sorrowful experiences, was humbled to the dust, yet lifted up to heaven, and the soul of him swelled with thoughts beyond the telling.” Literary World gives this review: So much of the interest depends on the surprises in the plot, that we will not give an outline of the story, but only say that it holds several absorbing situations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with God's Prisoner: A Story (1899). To get started finding God's Prisoner: A Story (1899), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A scarce antiquarian book. Link: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL271697...Description copied from The Bookman, May 1899, Page 281. A blacker tale than this is in the beginning, and for perhaps two thirds of its length, rarely falls under the reviewer’s eyes. In the opening pages a murder is committed under particularly atrocious circumstances, and the gruesome details are described with horrible minuteness. It would be unendurable reading but for the good quality of its writing, a strength and firmness which give a certain dignity, lifting the work out of the list of the penny dreadful. This straightforward, calm, manner continues to hold the wild yarn steady through the improbable events following the initial tragedy, making it appear within bounds of possibility that ships could be lost and right man saved – ad infinitum – as the progress of the story seems to require. This is the impression of the first two thirds of the book. Afterward the work begins to take on a character, to grow firm and rather psychological. The murder – whose soul is God’s Prisoner, but whose body is free – wanders from side to side, and from end to end of the earth, seeking the peace that can never be found. But, after a time, he does find a measure of relief in doing good and in self-sacrifice – where real happiness must perhaps always be found. Toward the close of the story love comes for the first time into the murderer’s life, “and the heart of the man, with its fuller knowledge and its more sorrowful experiences, was humbled to the dust, yet lifted up to heaven, and the soul of him swelled with thoughts beyond the telling.” Literary World gives this review: So much of the interest depends on the surprises in the plot, that we will not give an outline of the story, but only say that it holds several absorbing situations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with God's Prisoner: A Story (1899). To get started finding God's Prisoner: A Story (1899), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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