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Children of This Earth 
Author(s) Bruce Marshall Country Scotland Language English Genre(s) Novel Publication date 1930 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 320 ISBN N/A Preceded by The Rough House (1930) Followed by Father Malachy's Miracle (1931) Children of This Earth is a 1930 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.
Plot summary
John Glenuff is the son of a wealthy Scottish family with deep and powerful religious feelings. He studies to become a minister and is assigned to a conservative Anglican church in London. He is troubled by the sin and lack of religious belief he sees and dreams of bringing all to Christ.
A wealthy and beautiful young girl pursues him and he is distraught when he almost succumbs to her. Walking home through Leicester Square afterwards he is propositioned by Dorothy, an attractive young prostitute. On the spot he decides to marry her in order to “save her soul.” And, despite his superiors’ objections, he does so.
Church officials transfer him to an Anglican parish in Paris to minimize scandal, but his religious fervor and grandiose plans soon alienate the congregation. His marriage also deteriorates as he finds Dorothy extremely resistant to his preaching.
As the novel ends, Glenuff believes that he has developed stigmata and thinks that these will finally enable him to convert the world, but it turns out that he is the only one who can see the signs.[1]
References
- ^ Marshall, B: Children of This Earth The Macaulay Company 1930.
See also
Works by Bruce Marshall Novels A Thief in the Night (ca 1918) • This Sorry Scheme (1924) • The Stooping Venus (1926) • Teacup Terrace (1926) • And There Were Giants (1927) • The Other Mary (1927) • High Brows (1929) • The Little Friend (1929) • The Rough House, a possibility (1930) • Children of This Earth (1930) • Father Malachy's Miracle (1931) • Prayer for the Living (1934) • The Uncertain Glory (1935) • Canon to the Right of Them (1936) • Luckypenny (1937) • Delilah Upside Down, a Tract, with a Thrill (1941) • Yellow Tapers for Paris (1943) • The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith (1944) • George Brown's Schooldays (1946) • Vespers in Vienna (1947) • To Every Man a Penny (1949) • The Fair Bride (1953) • Only Fade Away (1954) • Girl in May (1956) • The Accounting (1958) • A Thread of Scarlet (1959) • The Divided Lady (1960) • A Girl from Lübeck (1962) • The Month of the Falling Leaves (1963) • Father Hilary's Holiday (1965) • The Bishop (1970) • The Black Oxen (1972) • Urban the Ninth (1973) • Operation Iscariot (1974) • Marx the First (1975) • Peter the Second (1976) • The Yellow Streak (1977) • Prayer for a Concubine (1978) • Flutter in the Dovecote (1986) • A Foot in the Grave (1987) • An Account of Capers (1988)
Non-fiction The White Rabbit (1953) • Thoughts of My Cats (1954)
Other Contribution to A Time to Laugh (1949) • "The Curé of Ars," chapter in Saints for Now (1952) • Introduction to Rue Notre Dame (1953) • Foreword to Top Secret Mission (1955)
Categories:- 1930 novels
- Novels by Bruce Marshall
- Novels set in London
- Novels set in Paris
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