Joseph Hocking is the Lutheran Librarian’s favorite Christian novelist. During his lifetime he was widely read and greatly beloved throughout the English speaking world. Most of his books deal in some way with the struggles and conflicts of living as a Christian in the modern world.

The Lutheran Library is republishing many of Joseph Hocking’s novels. If you have any of Hocking’s 50 “lost” books, please contact us.

Contents

• About The Author
• Frontispiece
• Titlepage
• Contents
• 1 A Cynic’s Challenge
• 2 The Challenge Accepted
• 3 The Man And The Woman Meet
• 4 A Double Personality
• 5 The Strengthening Of The Chain
• 6 Leicester’s Wooing
• 7 A Woman’s Heart
• 8 The Four Men Meet Again
• 9 The Night Before The Wedding
• 10 The Wedding-day
• 11 Leicester And Winfield
• 12 The Last Link Broken
• 13 Degradation
• 14 Leicester’s Farewell To Taviton
• 15 The Cynic And The Countrywoman
• 16 A Grim Joke
• 17 How Olive Received The News
• 18 Olive’s Life In Devonshire
• 19 The Man With The Fez
• 20 Herbert Briarfield And The Stranger
• 21 A Game Of Golf—a Game Of Life
• 22 Signor Ricordo And Olive
• 23 Sprague’s Explanation
• 24 Ricordo’s Reminiscences
• 25 The Coming Of Winfield
• 26 Revelations
• 27 Ricordo’s Wooing
• 28 The Second Meeting Of The Cynic And The Countrywoman
• 29 God And The Man
• 30 The Man Who Rose Again

Publication Information

• Lutheran Library edition first published: 2020 updated: 2024
• Copyright: CC BY 4.0