Christy
Christy Huddleston left home at 19 to teach school in the Smokey Mountains. There she came to know and love the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, their yearning for beauty and truth. Christy found her faith severely challenged in these...
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Christy Huddleston left home at 19 to teach school in the Smokey Mountains. There she came to know and love the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, their yearning for beauty and truth. Christy found her faith severely challenged in these primitive surroundings; and, confronted with two young men of unique strength and needs, she found her own growing yearnings challenged by love.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780070406056 (0070406057)
Publish date: June 1st 1967
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Christian,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Inspirational,
Christian Fiction
On Thrusdays, I will be posting review of beloved books. Christy by Catherine Marshall In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark s...
I posted this review on Goodreads this afternoon, but wanted to add it over here as well. In case it gets deleted over there. Until 3 days ago, I had 1500 books on my Goodreads bookshelves. Until one month ago, I was passionate about Goodreads, an evangelist, really, telling everyone I knew - wh...
I first read this back in my early teens and I've kept the old, ragged thing and reread it many times. Just something really great about this one.
A very atmospheric book. I've only read it twice as it's a bit difficult to get through, but I really enjoyed it.
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