A_Far_Country_(Winston_Churchill)
A Far Country (novel)
Novel by Winston Churchill
Not to be confused with The Far Country, the novel written by Nevil Shute (1952)..
A Far Country is a novel by American writer Winston Churchill published in 1915.
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Author | Winston Churchill |
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Illustrator | Herman Pfiefer |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 1915 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 509 pp |
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The book follows the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood, and how his profession as a corporation lawyer gradually changes his values.[1]
The title is a reference to the Parable of the Prodigal Son,[2] where Luke 15:13 (KJV) provides that the son went "into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living."
The book received positive reviews,[3] and was the second best-selling novel in the United States in 1915.[4]
- (20 June 1915). Our Nation As Prodigal Son, Chicago Tribune ("Winston Churchill, at 44, has written a better novel than even the most flattering reviewers prophesied from his youthful work.")
- Alice Payne Hackett. Seventy Years of Best Sellers 1895-1965, p. 113 (1967) (The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington was number one that year)
- A Far Country at Project Gutenberg
- A Far Country public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Full book scan of 1915 Canadian printing via Google Books
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