The First Ten: A Harold Bell Wright Collection (10 Books including That Printer of Udell's, The Shepherd of the Hills, The Calling of Dan Matthews, The Uncrowned King, The Winning of Barbara & More)
(Harold Bell Wright was a best-selling American writer of ...)
Harold Bell Wright was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and non-fiction in the early twentieth century.
In this collection you will find his first ten novels which were originally published from 1903 to 1921:
That Printer of Udell's
The Shepherd of the Hills
The Calling of Dan Matthews
The Uncrowned King
The Winning of Barbara
Their Yesterdays
The Eyes of the World
When a Man's a Man
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
Helen of the Old House
That Printer Of Udell's: By Harold Bell Wright - Illustrated
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• Unabridged (100% Original content)
• Illustrated
About That Printer Of Udell's by Harold Bell Wright
That Printer of Udell's is a 1903 work of fiction by Harold Bell Wright. Wright, who served as a minister before becoming a writer, created a story with Christian themes. In the story, Dick Falkner, who comes from a broken home, sees his father under the influence of alcohol and his mother starving. After his parents die, Dick goes to Boyd City in the Midwestern United States to become employed. Dick believes that "Christians won't let me starve." A printer named George Udell hires Dick; both of them decide to become Christians and Dick becomes a revered member of the religious community due to his public speaking abilities and optimism. At the end of the book, Dick gets a political job in Washington, D.C. Ronald Reagan read the book at age 11 after his mother, a member of the Protestant Disciples of Christ Church, gave him the book. Reagan says that the book inspired him to become an evangelical Christian; he became baptized by his mother's congregation. At age 66 Reagan said that the book "left an abiding belief in the triumph of good over evil."
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(Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) was a best-selling America...)
Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) was a best-selling American writer during the first half of the 20th century, and is said to be the first American to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. The Mine with the Iron Door is set in and around Tucson, Arizona in the early 20th century.
A Harold Bell Wright Trilogy: Shepherd of the Hills, The Calling of Dan Matthews, and God and the Groceryman
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The Shepherd of the Hills: Originally published in 1907...)
The Shepherd of the Hills: Originally published in 1907, this is Harold Bell Wright�s most famous work. The shepherd, an elderly, mysterious, learned man, escapes the buzzing restlessness of the city to live in the Ozarks. This shepherd is based on Wright himself, who moved to the Ozarks and established a ministry. The Calling of Dan Matthews: In this sequel, Dan Matthews, becomes the new minister of the Midwestern town of Corinth. God and the Groceryman: This last book in the Dan Matthews trilogy is a plea for God�s presence in all aspects of life.
Harold Wright was born on May 4, 1872, on a farm near Rome, New York, the second of the four sons of William Wright and Alma Watson. His father's forebears had come from Essex, England, in 1640 and had settled at Wethersfield, Connecticut; later descendants moved to Oneida County, New York, where in 1800 they established the county's first church, in Rome. His father, William Wright, after serving in the Civil War, failed to adapt to civilian life, became addicted to drink, and as an itinerant carpenter shifted his family from town to town, finally settling in Sennett, N. Y. , where they lived in extreme poverty.
Education
Harold was sent to the local primary school, regularly attended the Presbyterian Sunday school and church, and from his mother learned something of art and literature. She died of tuberculosis when he was eleven, the family broke up, and for the next ten years he was essentially homeless.
Career
Sent to work for neighboring farmers, he later lived with various relatives, held a succession of odd jobs in Ohio (where he had briefly joined his father), and one winter worked in a bookstore, where he was allowed to read freely. After completing his apprenticeship with a house painter, he began to regret his scanty education and employed a tutor, with whom he studied at night. A chance encounter with an evangelist reawakened his early religious convictions, and he joined the Disciples of Christ. To educate himself for the ministry, he enrolled in 1894 in the junior preparatory department of the denomination's Hiram College in Ohio, where he spent two years before wandering on for lack of money. He worked for a while at a stone quarry, suffered a nearly fatal attack of pneumonia, and began painting landscapes to earn a living. A stubborn eye infection ended this venture, as well as his hopes of returning to college. To regain his health, he made a canoe trip down the Ohio River and then joined relatives in the Ozarks, near Notch, Missouri. There he regularly attended church and first began preaching. Though without formal training, for the next ten years he served as a minister of the Christian Church: at Pierce City, Missouri (1897 - 1898), Pittsburg, Kansas (1898 - 1903), Kansas City, Missouri (1903 - 1905), Lebanon, Missouri (1905 - 1907) and Redlands, California (1907 - 1908). He then left the ministry to devote full time to writing novels, hoping to carry his message to a larger audience than he could reach through the pulpit. Although Wright had done some writing while a student at Hiram College, he made his first serious attempt at fiction during his years in Kansas when he wrote That Printer of Udell's (1903). Originally entitled Practical Christianity and largely autobiographical in its material, it embodied his conviction that most churches had forgotten the true teachings of Christ and had failed in their social responsibilities to the poor. Although rejected by Eastern publishers, the work was accepted by the Book Supply Company of Chicago, a mail-order house, and, well advertised, sold 450, 000 copies. Wright next wrote The Shepherd of the Hills (1907), set in his beloved Ozark mountains, which became an immediate best seller, and The Calling of Dan Matthews (1909), a fictional critique of current religious practices. The Winning of Barbara Worth (1911), perhaps Wright's best novel, sold more than a million and a half copies. Set in the Imperial Valley of California, where Wright was then living, it dealt with the reclamation project that had turned that desert waste into a place of homes and fertile fields. Other novels followed in steady succession, usually at intervals of two years, until 1932, with a final novel in 1942. D. Appleton & Company became his publisher in 1921. Although Wright's novels were phenomenal best sellers and made him a wealthy man, they had little merit as literature, and their popularity bewildered the critics. Wright's style and technique were in fact better than many people unfamiliar with his work could easily believe, and he wrote out of deep conviction. He created his melodramatic plots and stereotyped characters solely to illustrate his chosen themes: that true religion should be a part of daily life, not merely a Sunday ritual; that simple country folk living close to nature are morally superior to wealthy urbanites; and that the evils of the American social structure could be corrected by true men and true women who lived according to Christian principles. He had a wide readership among plain people of rural and small-town America.
Though his popularity declined somewhat after the First World War, the nineteen books produced during his lifetime sold more than ten million copies, one of the records of popular culture. All his life Wright was subject to respiratory infections, and in the 1920's he developed tuberculosis, which he successfully treated by an open-air existence in Arizona and California.
In 1934, he established a farm near Escondido, California, which produced many kinds of fruit and vegetables.
Harold Wright died on May 24, 1944, at La Jolla, California, of bronchial pneumonia at the age of 72. His ashes are held at Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, Calif. , in a book-shaped copper urn imbedded in sand from the Imperial Valley, the scene of his most successful novel.
Achievements
The best-selling writer of fiction, essays and nonfiction during the first half of the 20th century, Harold Bell Wright was the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction.
Quotations:
"There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality. "
"The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors. "
"Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real… He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand…"
Personality
Harold Wright was normally a robust man, more than six feet tall, who loved fine horses and the outdoors.
Connections
On July 18, 1899, Harold Wright married Frances Elizabeth Long, by whom he had three sons. He was divorced from his first wife in 1920, and on August 5 of that year he married Winifred Mary Potter Duncan and remained married to her until his death.
