Книга: Harold Bell Wright «The Shepherd of the Hills»
Серия: "Wordsworth Classics" Few works of American fiction have proved as enduringly popular as Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills. Wright's novel, first published in 1907, was an instant best seller; by 1918 the book had sold over two million copies; the following year it was adapted for the silent screen (the first of four cinematic versions); and by the mid-1920s Wright was established as the most commercially successful American novelist of all time. Wright's compelling and moving tale of an outsider who begins a new life in the isolated, insulated world of the fictional Mutton Hollow draws on his work as a Protestant pastor and his familiarity with the pioneer culture of homesteaders in the Ozark Mountains region of southern Missouri. The novel is both exciting and elegiac, mysterious and melodramatic. Henry Claridge's introduction to this new Wordsworth edition provides an account of the social and historical background to Wright's novel, particularly its dramatisation of the changing world of the American frontier in the late 19th century, and an explanatory note for the modern reader to aid him or her with the idioms and speech-patterns of Ozark dialect. Издательство: "Wordsworth" (2015)
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Harold Bell Wright
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Early life
Wright was born in Rome, Oneida County, New York to William A. and Anna Watson Wright. In his autobiography, "To My Sons", Wright reports that his father, a former Civil War lieutenant and lifetime alcoholic, dragged "his wife and children from place to place, existing from hand to mouth, sinking deeper and deeper, as the years passed, into the slough of wretched poverty." His mother, on the other hand, paid close attention to the children, taught them moral principles and read to them from the Bible, Shakespeare, The Pilgrim's Progress and Hiawatha. From his mother Wright learned to appreciate the beauties of nature. When a neighbor taught young Wright to draw and paint, his mother nourished his artistic talents.
When Wright was eleven years old his mother died and his father abandoned the children. For the remainder of his childhood Wright lived with various relatives or strangers, mostly in Ohio. He found odd jobs here and there, frequently sleeping under bridges or in haystacks. In his late teens he found regular employment painting both works of art and houses. After two years of what Wright called "pre-preparation" education at
Writing and preaching career
In 1902, while pastoring the Christian Church in
In 1907, after the success of The Shepherd of the Hills (his first book to sell one million copies), Wright resigned as pastor of the Redlands, California, Christian Church, moved to a ranch near
Themes and later work
Wright did not leave the ministry only because he could make more money writing fiction. In most of his novels, beginning with "That Printer of Udell's", he attacked the
In 1909, pastors across America were incensed by his third book, "The Calling of Dan Matthews", which told the story of a young preacher who, like Wright, resigned from the ministry in order to retain his integrity. In 1910
Wright never responded to his critics, except to say that he never intended to create great literature, only to minister to ordinary people.
Later life
From 1916 to about 1935 Wright lived mostly in
From 1935 until his death in 1944, Wright lived on his "Quiet Hills Farm" near
After struggling most of his life with lung disease, Wright died of bronchial pneumonia in Scripps Memorial Hospital in
Literary criticism
In 1945
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Scott and Dickens were not American authors, and Gardner came much later than Wright. By Mott's reckoning Harold Bell Wright was one of only three American authors to write five best sellers from the arrival of the pilgrims in America through the first quarter of the 20th century. And Wright's total book sales were higher than Cooper and Porter. No American beat, or quite matched, Harold Bell Wright's record until Erle Stanley Gardner, whose career peaked 30 years after Wright's.
Wright's biographer,
Published works
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* "The Calling of Dan Matthews" Book Supply Company, 1909
* "The Uncrowned King" Book Supply Company, 1910
* "The Winning of Barbara Worth" Book Supply Company, 1911
* "Their Yesterdays" Book Supply Company, 1912
* "The Eyes of the World" Book Supply Company, 1914
* "When a Man's a Man" Book Supply Company, 1916
* "The Re-Creation of Brian Kent" Book Supply Company, 1919
* "Helen of the Old House" D. Appleton and Company, 1921
* "The Mine with the Iron Door" D. Appleton and Company, 1923
* "A Son of His Father" D. Appleton and Company, 1925
* "God and the Groceryman" D. Appleton and Company, 1927
* "Long Ago Told: Legends of the Papago Indians" D. Appleton and Company, 1929
* "Exit" D. Appleton and Company, 1930
* "The Devil's Highway" D. Appleton and Company, 1932
* "Ma Cinderella" Harper and Brothers, 1932
* "To My Sons" Harper and Brothers, 1934
* "The Man Who Went Away" Harper and Brothers, 1942
External links
* [http://www.hbw.addr.com/ Biography and detailed book descriptions]
* [http://www.imperial.cc.ca.us/pioneers/hbwright.htm Biography]
*gutenberg author|id=Harold_Bell_Wright|name=Harold Bell Wright
* [http://hometown.aol.com/hbwmuseuminpcmo/myhomepage/index.html Harold Bell Wright Museum in Pierce City, Missouri]
* [http://longagotold.blogspot.com/ Copyrighted Translations of the original Legends of the Tohono O'odham used in Long Ago Told]
Источник: Harold Bell Wright
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