Joseph Hocking (1860-1937), Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister. Like the American Presbyterian minister Edward Roe, Hocking’s novels combine rich characters with gripping stories. Joseph Hocking published more than 100 books and was greatly respected as a fiction writer.
Here is a biography of Joseph Hocking: Joseph Hocking Biography. And a review: Review of Hocking Biography
âYou donât mind my being absolutely frank, do you?â continued Baxter after a somewhat awkward silence. âItâs years since I spoke to anyone about such things, and I really want to know.â
10 Nov 2021
Joseph Hocking (1860-1937), was a Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister. Like the American Presbyterian minister Edward Roe, Hockingâs novels combine rich characters with gripping stories. Joseph Hocking published more than 101 books and was greatly respected as a fiction writer.
11 Aug 2021
âHe had expected to be immediately forwarded to some dirty German prison, where he would suffer the same fate as many of his English comrades. Instead of which, however, he might almost have been a guest of honor. For this reason he could not help coming to the conclusion that this special treatment was for some purpose.
1 Dec 2019
âHe remembered the thoughts that had flooded his mind when first the idea came to him to take Barcroftâs identity; to be Barcroft⊠He had only wondered whether he could carry out the project successfully. Then he had come to his decision. He had buried Barcroftâs body under the dĂ©bris of the mining camp. He had dressed himself in Barcroftâs clothes; he had appropriated his papers, his bank-book, his possessions, his name, and had come to England as the Vicar of St. Michaelâs.â
12 Nov 2019
The Pomp of Yesterday is a novel inspired by Rudyard Kiplingâs poem Recessional. Its message of England at the height of her glory has meaning for America today. Recessional by Rudyard Kipling God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle line, Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pineâ Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forgetâlest we forget! \
26 Jul 2019
âMr, Wildthorne,â said Maggie, âhave you fulfilled the promise you made me the last time we met?â âWhat promise?â âYou promised me that you would read an authoritative life of Luther, an authoritative history of the Reformation.â
16 May 2019
âYou mean to say,â he said in good Arabic to the leader of the gang who surrounded him and the grey-bearded man by his side, âthat my life will he spared if I renounce Christianity and accept your faith?â
4 Mar 2019
âOnly a small part of this story is imagination. Nearly every incident in the book was told me by âTommyâ himself, and while the setting of my simple tale is fiction, the tale itself is fact.
27 Feb 2019
âMr Hockingâs novels have been compared to those of Thomas Hardy, Hall Caine, Baring-Gould, and Stanley Weyman; they are, one and all, stamped with striking and original individuality. Bold in conception, strenuously high and earnest in purpose, daring in thought, picturesque and lifelike in description, it is not to be wondered at that Mr. Hockingâs novels are eagerly awaited by a great and ever-increasing public.â â Ward, Lock & Co.
7 Feb 2019
Joseph Hocking (1860-1937), Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister. Like the American Presbyterian minister Edward Roe, Hockingâs novels combine rich characters with gripping stories. Joseph Hocking published more than 100 books and was greatly respected as a fiction writer.
1 Jan 0001