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Verk av Basil King

The Conquest of Fear (1921) 34 exemplar
The Inner Shrine (1909) 18 exemplar
The Street Called Straight (1911) 15 exemplar
The Wild Olive (2009) 9 exemplar
The way home : a novel (1913) 9 exemplar
The High Heart (2011) 8 exemplar
The letter of the contract (1914) 7 exemplar
The Dust Flower (2009) 6 exemplar
The Empty Sack (2011) 5 exemplar
Abraham's Bosom (1918) 5 exemplar
The Bible and common sense, (1924) 4 exemplar
The happy isles 4 exemplar
The side of the angels (2010) 4 exemplar
The thread of flame (2013) 4 exemplar
The lifted veil (2010) 4 exemplar
Let not man put asunder (1901) 3 exemplar
The Abolishing of Death (1901) 3 exemplar
Going west (2015) 3 exemplar
The High Forfeit (1925) 2 exemplar
Griselda (1900) 1 exemplar
Discovery of God, The (1922) 1 exemplar

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This was the best selling book in the USA in 1909, a century ago. I downloaded it from Project Gutenberg after reading John Scalzi's piece about the bestsellers of yesteryear, and how they are forgotten. (Does anyone want to join me in reading Florence Barclay's The Rosary next year, a century after it topped the charts?)

The Inner Shrine is probably a decent enough novel in the romance genre, and people who like that sort of thing today will probably enjoy this as well. After an opening couple of chapters in France, where the older heroine's first husband dies in murky circumstances, we then shift to New York, where the challenge becomes to unite three pairs of lovers sundered by circumstance and social codes (all are, or have been, very rich). You probably aren't going to read this, so I shall reveal that the 'Inner Shrine' of the title is a woman's heart, which can be unlocked by the three words 'I love you.' That is probably the crucial data point that will help you decide if you want to read this book or not.
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Verk
24
Medlemmar
153
Popularitet
#136,480
Betyg
½ 3.5
Recensioner
2
ISBN
85
Språk
1

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