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The Short Day Dying
The Short Day Dying
Author: Peter Hobbs
This is the story of four seasons in the life of Charles Wenmoth, a twenty-seven-year-old apprentice blacksmith and Methodist lay preacher in Cornwall in 1870. Life is at its hardest; poverty is everywhere. Charles crosses and recrosses the raw, beautiful landscape, attending to the sick and helping the poor, preaching in chapels with ever-dwind...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780156032414
ISBN-10: 0156032414
Publication Date: 3/20/2006
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Harvest Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Good literature about a lay minister in England and his struggles with faith. Sort of stream of consciousness with little punctuation make it a little harder to read, but I really enjoyed that it had no climax, an interesting period study.


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