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Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
The story follows the experiences of a new vicar, who grapples with his role in a quaint parish while navigating his fears, hopes, and relationships with the townspeople, revealing the often complex and nuanced interactions between the clergy and their flock.
"Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood" by George MacDonald is a novel. The story follows the experiences of a new vicar, who grapples with his role in a quaint parish while navigating his fears, hopes, and relationships with the townspeople, revealing the often complex and nuanced interactions between the clergy and their flock.
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Before I begin to tell you some of the things I have seen and heard, in both of which I have had to take a share, now from the compulsion of my office, now from the leading of my own heart, and now from that destiny which, including both, so often throws the man who supposed himself a mere on-looker, into the very vortex of events—that destiny which took form to the old pagans as a gray mist high beyond the heads of their gods, but to us is known as an infinite love, revealed in the mystery of man—I say before I begin, it is fitting that, in the absence of a common friend to do that office for me, I should introduce myself to your acquaintance, and I hope coming friendship. Nor can there be any impropriety in my telling you about myself, seeing I remain concealed behind my own words. You can never look me in the eyes, though you may look me in the soul. You may find me out, find my faults, my vanities, my sins, but you will not SEE me, at least in this world. To you I am but a voice of revealing, not a form of vision; therefore I am bold behind the mask, to speak to you heart to heart; bold, I say, just so much the more that I do not speak to you face to face. And when we meet in heaven—well, there I know there is no hiding; there, there is no reason for hiding anything; there, the whole desire will be alternate revelation and vision.
Contents
- 01Chapter I. Despondency and Consolation.
- 02Chapter II. My First Sunday at Marshmallows.
- 03Chapter III. My First Monday at Marshmallows.
- 04Chapter IV. The Coffin.
- 05Chapter V. Visitors from the Hall.
- 06Chapter VI. Oldcastle Hall.
- 07Chapter VII. The Bishop’s Basin.
- 08Chapter VIII. What I Preached.
- 09Chapter IX. The Organist.
- 10Chapter X. My Christmas Party.
- 11Chapter XI. Sermon on God and Mammon.
- 12Chapter XII. The Avenue.
- 13Chapter XIII. Young Weir.
- 14Chapter XIV. My Pupil.
- 15Chapter XV. Dr Duncan’s Story.
- 16Chapter XVI. The Organ.
- 17Chapter XVII. The Church-Rate.
- 18Chapter XVIII. Judy’s News.
- 19Chapter XIX. The Invalid.
- 20Chapter XX. Mood and Will.
- 21Chapter XXI. The Devil in Thomas Weir.
- 22Chapter XXII. The Devil in Catherine Weir.
- 23Chapter XXIII. The Devil in the Vicar.
- 24Chapter XXIV. An Angel Unawares.
- 25Chapter XXV. Two Parishioners.
- 26Chapter XXVI. Satan Cast Out.
- 27Chapter XXVII. The Man and the Child.
- 28Chapter XXVIII. Old Mrs Tomkins.
- 29Chapter XXIX. Calm and Storm.
- 30Chapter XXX. A Sermon to Myself.
- 31Chapter XXXI. A Council of Friends.
- 32Chapter XXXII. The Next Thing.
- 33Chapter XXXIII. Old Rogers’s Thanksgiving.
- 34Chapter XXXIV. Tom’s Story.
About this edition
- Author
- George MacDonald
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 416 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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