The Lost Word

by Henry Van Dyke

Other authorsAmy Richards (Cover designer)
Hardcover, 1898

Status

Available

Call number

813

Collection

Publication

Charles Scribner’s Sons (1898). 71p.

Description

This beautifully designed and illustrated gift book tells a Christmas story.

User reviews

LibraryThing member MAFA1999
71 page book written in six sections I. The Poverty of Hermas; II. A Christmas Loss; III. Parting but No farewell; IV Love in Search of a word; V. Riches without Rest; VI.. Great Fear and Recovered Joy.
The four illustrations are photogravures from the original drawings by Corwin Knapp Linson.
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search will bring up many web-pages which offer the text as an e-book without ISBN or copyright.
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation lists it on manybooks.net with a picture of the cover which matches our copy passed down through my husband's family.
A delightful book to read for the entire family.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1898

Local notes

'A Christmas legend': Acting upon the advice of a pagan priest, Hermas resumes his materially rich but spiritually empty life before a Christian priest reawakens his faith.
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