Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Greenwood Press

The Keys of the Kingdom

Literature & Fiction

CRONIN, A.J.

Contemporary

Back Bay Books

Light wear to boards. Light toning to pages with gift message to blank page. DJ has tears and some wear to edges. DJ price clipped.

Desmonde

Little,Brown

"Cronin's distinguished achievement....No one could have written as fine, honest, and moving a study of a young doctor as The Citadel without possessing great literary taste and skill." --The Atlantic Monthly A groundbreaking novel of its time and a National Book Award winner. The Citadel follows the life of Andrew Manson, a young and idealistic Scottish doctor, as he navigates the challenges of practicing medicine across interwar Wales and England. Based on Cronin's own experiences as a physician, The Citadel boldly confronts traditional medical ethics, and has been noted as one of the inspirations for the formation of the National Health Service. The Citadel has been adapted into several successful film, radio, and television productions around the world, including the Oscar-nominated 1938 film starring Ralph Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, and Rex Harrison.

The Citadel

British & Irish

Sent to China, a Scottish priest struggles to create and maintain a mission where famine, disease, and civil war prevail

Scottish orphan Francis Chisholm never intended to be a priest. Nevertheless, brimming with youthful vigour, he does his best to make life easier for the working poor. His superiors however view the boxing clubs and dances as disturbing proof that he is a maverick and when the mission in China needs a new recruit he is requested to apply. Pai-Tan 1902. The mission is deserted and the local Chinese do not respond to him with gratitude but rather bemusement tinged with disdain. But Chisholm decides to stay and find a way to connect and build a life with a people and in a land so different from his own. Then civil war looms and his faith and courage are put violently to the test.

Little. Brown and Company

Paul Mathry struggles to free his father from Stoneheath where he has been unjustly imprisoned for a murder he did not commit

Beyond This Place

Little,Brown & Co

The Keys of the Kingdom (Hodder Great Reads)

Self-Help

Relationships

Set in the beautiful western highlands of Scotland, the story revolves around the innocent youth whose very naivete' is a target for the complex currents of his social surroundings--the bigotry of the Scottish Protestants, therigid class consciousness. Laurie is an outsider. The only child of a middleclass Catholic couple, he suffers the pangs of isolation in a staunch Puritan town.

A Song of Sixpence

Hatters Castle was written in 1930 but contains an essential truth which is just as relevant today. Its main theme is the hubris of one man and the tragic path it leads him and members of his family down. James Brodie dominates the book as he did his family and, blind to the physical and mental destruction he causes, the tragedies he generates are inevitable. The book was a huge bestseller on its release and it is not difficult to see why. Not only did it address subjects not often dealt with by literature at the time but it created a cast of characters so vivid that the reader becomes part of the world that Cronin creates. Cronin's books are perhaps not as popular as they were when first published. This may be because of their deceptively simple narrative structure, but great novels give us insights into humanity which are not limited to the time they are written. Hatters Castle is a great novel and the reader is changed by reading it.

Hatter's Castle

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Set in the north of England at the turn of the century, this novel focuses on the lives and times of the people who lived there, describing the suffering of the miners and the advent of World War I. Other publications by Cronin include "Adventures of a Black Bag", a collection of short stories.

The Stars Look Down

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The Keys of the Kingdom

Desmonde

The Citadel

The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom

Beyond This Place

The Keys of the Kingdom (Hodder Great Reads)

A Song of Sixpence

Hatter's Castle

The Stars Look Down