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Harold Bell Wright
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First published in 1907, "The Shepherd of the Hills" is Harold Bell Wright's mostly fictional tale of people living in the foothills of the Ozarks. The story is principally concerned with the relationship of Grant Matthews, Sr., affectionately known in his community as "Old Matt", and "The Shepherd of the Hills", a wise old man who has chosen the peace of the backwoods over the hustle and bustle of the city. The Shepherd is a quiet and mysterious...
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The novel that inspired a young Ronald Reagan-and left him with "an abiding belief in the triumph of good over evil."
"I found a role model in that traveling printer whom Harold Bell Wright had brought to life. He set me on a course I've tried to follow even unto this day. I shall always be grateful." -Ronald Reagan, in a letter to Harold B. Wright's daughter-in-law in 1984
After reading this book at age eleven, Ronald Reagan experienced...
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Recognized as one of America's early twentieth-century beloved fiction writers, Harold Bell Wright possessed the remarkable ability of crafting timeless, dramatic stories charged with spiritual significance. A Higher Call, a compelling drama involving a young minister, promises to challenge the perspective of the twentieth-century church. A new and rather naive pastor, Dan Matthews accepts his church call with great anticipation. But he quickly runs...
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"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 Ally." ...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...
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A young painter named Aaron King heads out west to California. There he meets and befriends Conrad Lagrange, a famous and critically renowned novelist who, by his own admission, writes "the putrid offal that self-respecting writers reject." Will Aaron flatter the rich and powerful men and women who control the art world, or keep his integrity as an artist? Meanwhile, he falls in love with a free-spirited girl named Sybil
6) To my sons
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Probably no other book about "a man's first thirty years" has ever been written for the reason that lies behind this one: a father's realization that in no other way would his sons be able to learn the story of his life before they were born. In this unassuming and warmly human statement, Harold Bell Wright tells a story more moving, more interesting and more picturesque than in any of the novels which have made him world-famous. After the death of...
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This is the first novel by Harold Bell Wright, one the most successful turn-of-the-century American writers. Many of his books inspired movies, including The Winning of Barbara Worth starring Gary Cooper and The Shepherd of the Hills starring John Wayne.
In The Least of These My Brothers, Dick Falkner, on his own since the death of his mother, arrives in the bustling mining town of Boyd City. Poor, homeless, and hungry, he's a printer by trade who...
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Here is a land where a man, to live, must be a man. It is a land of granite and marble, strong stone and gold, and a man's strength must be as the strength of the primeval hills. It is a land of oaks and cedars and pines-and a man's mental grace must be as the grace of the untamed trees. It is a land of far-arched and unstained skies, where the wind sweeps free and untainted, and the atmosphere is the atmosphere of those places that remain as God...