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    The City of Fire
    The City of Fire
    The City of Fire
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    The City of Fire

    By Grace Livingston Hill

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1976
    The City of Fire
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    Grace Livingston Hill

    Grace Livingston Hill was an early–twentieth century novelist who wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote more than one hundred novels and numerous short stories. She was born in Wellsville, New York, in 1865 to Marcia Macdonald Livingston and her husband, Rev. Charles Montgomery Livingston. Hill’s writing career began as a child in the 1870s, writing short stories for her aunt’s weekly children’s publication, The Pansy. She continued writing into adulthood as a means to support her two children after her first husband died. Hill died in 1947 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

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      A friend introduced me to Grace Livingston Hill (GLH) books when we were in college. I found and read all of the ones GLH had had published many years ago. I am rereading some of them.WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD (READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION):****The story of Billy and Mark could have stood alone. Marilyn seemed to enter into it as an ideal only: Billy is her Sunday School student and admires both her and Mark and doesn't want to let her down. Mark and Marilyn were once thought to be an item but now Mark seems to have changed while Marilyn has remained unspoiled.There's also the contrast of the worldly (Stafton and Opal) with the God-revering (Marilyn and her family).The story was written long ago and doesn't conform to today's standards of storytelling in fiction. It was nice to have a story with a moral. A story where people tried to do the right thing for the right reasons.
    • 3/5
      Although I am a BIG fan of Grace Livingston Hill, this wasn't one of my favorite stories. It seemed a little slow She had a good message in the story, as all of her stories do, but I just didn't get into the story line that much.Marilyn Severn is the minister's daughter in Sabbath Valley and has just returned home from her years at college. She grew up knowing and hanging out with Mark Carter from her town but when she returns she finds him cold and distant from her. Mark will eventually become a prime suspect for a murder he did not commit and only one boy in town can prove his innocence, but he cannot be found. Sometimes it takes desperate times in people's lives to show them the love of the heavenly Father, and the love of people in your life that you don't think you are worthy of. A message of hope for the hopeless and of God working all things out for good because of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.

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