The City of Fire
by Grace Livingston Hill
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A Wholesome Christian Romance from Grace Livingston Hill. 'A Girl Doesn't Have to be Old Fashioned to be Good!' In The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill, Lynn Severn is the beautiful daughter of a small town pastor with a friend she is worried about. This suspenseful Christian romance departs from the typical Grace Livingston Hill model to deliver a delightful story about small town politics, adolescence, and the power of choice.Tags
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A friend introduced me to Grace Livingston Hill (GLH) books when we were in college. I found and read all of the ones GLH had had published many years ago. I am rereading some of them.
WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD (READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION):
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The story of Billy and Mark could have stood alone. Marilyn seemed to enter into it as an ideal only: Billy is her Sunday School student and admires both her and Mark and doesn't want to let her down. Mark and Marilyn were once thought to be an item but now Mark seems to have changed while Marilyn has remained unspoiled.
There's also the contrast of the worldly (Stafton and Opal) with the God-revering (Marilyn and her family).
The story was written long ago and doesn't conform to today's show more standards of storytelling in fiction. It was nice to have a story with a moral. A story where people tried to do the right thing for the right reasons. show less
WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD (READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION):
****
The story of Billy and Mark could have stood alone. Marilyn seemed to enter into it as an ideal only: Billy is her Sunday School student and admires both her and Mark and doesn't want to let her down. Mark and Marilyn were once thought to be an item but now Mark seems to have changed while Marilyn has remained unspoiled.
There's also the contrast of the worldly (Stafton and Opal) with the God-revering (Marilyn and her family).
The story was written long ago and doesn't conform to today's show more standards of storytelling in fiction. It was nice to have a story with a moral. A story where people tried to do the right thing for the right reasons. show less
Although I am a BIG fan of Grace Livingston Hill, this wasn't one of my favorite stories. It seemed a little slow She had a good message in the story, as all of her stories do, but I just didn't get into the story line that much.
Marilyn Severn is the minister's daughter in Sabbath Valley and has just returned home from her years at college. She grew up knowing and hanging out with Mark Carter from her town but when she returns she finds him cold and distant from her. Mark will eventually become a prime suspect for a murder he did not commit and only one boy in town can prove his innocence, but he cannot be found. Sometimes it takes desperate times in people's lives to show them the love of the heavenly Father, and the love of people in show more your life that you don't think you are worthy of. A message of hope for the hopeless and of God working all things out for good because of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes. show less
Marilyn Severn is the minister's daughter in Sabbath Valley and has just returned home from her years at college. She grew up knowing and hanging out with Mark Carter from her town but when she returns she finds him cold and distant from her. Mark will eventually become a prime suspect for a murder he did not commit and only one boy in town can prove his innocence, but he cannot be found. Sometimes it takes desperate times in people's lives to show them the love of the heavenly Father, and the love of people in show more your life that you don't think you are worthy of. A message of hope for the hopeless and of God working all things out for good because of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes. show less
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Grace Livingston Hill was born on April 16, 1865 in Wellsville, New York. In 1886, she moved with her family to Winter Park, Florida, where she got a job teaching gymnastics at a local college. She wrote her first book there, in an effort to raise money for a family vacation to Chautauqua Lake. The book was called Chatauqua Idyl and was published show more in 1887. She eventually married and began a family, but lost her husband to appendicitis. At this point in her life, her writing was the only way she could support her family. During her lifetime, she wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories of religious and Christian fiction including Blue Ruin and Mary Arden. She died in 1947 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The City of Fire
- Original title
- The City of Fire
- Original publication date
- 1922
- People/Characters
- Mark Carter; Marilyn Severn; Mrs. Carter; Mrs. Severn; Reverend Severn; Opal (show all 9); Laurence Stafton; Billy; Aunt Saxon "Saxy"
- Important places
- Sabbath Valley
- First words
- Sabbath Valley lay like a green jewel cupped in the hand of the surrounding mountains, with the morning sun serene upon it picking out the clean smooth streets, the white houses with their grren blinds, the maples with their ... (show all)clear-cut leaves, the cozy brick schoolhouse wide-winged and friendly, the vine-clad stone church, and the little stone bungalow with low spreading roof that was the parsonage.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"...and then it was sorta my faultchu know," and he turned with a joyful sigh that they were gone, and went in to look again at Mary Louise Little, and see what it was about her in that new blue challis that made her look so sorta nice today.
- Original language
- English US
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- Reviews
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- (3.50)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 35
- ASINs
- 6
