A Far Country
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Though American author Winston Churchill often focused on historical events as inspiration for his novels, his later work more often explored the way that events conspired to shape his characters' opinions and values. In A Far Country, protagonist Hugh Paret enters his career as a corporate lawyer full of high-minded ideals, but begins to change his outlook as he gains experience in the business world.
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill was a British military man, statesman, and Nobel-prize winning author, and, by virtue of his service during both the First and Second World Wars, is considered to be one of the greatest wartime leaders of the twentieth century. Born to the aristocracy, Churchill pursued a career in the British Army, seeing action in British India and in the Second Boer War, and later drew upon his experiences in these historic conflicts in his work as a war correspondent and writer. After retiring from active duty, Churchill moved into politics and went on to hold a number of important positions in the British government. He rose to the role of First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War and later to the role of prime minister, a position that he held twice, from 1940-1945 and from 1951-1955. A visionary statesman, Churchill was remarkable for his ability to perceive emerging threats to international peace, and predicted the rise of Nazi Germany, the Second World War, and the Iron Curtain. In his later years Churchill returned to writing, penning the six-volume Second World War series, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and many other historical and biographical works. Winston Churchill died in 1965 and, after one of the largest state funerals to that point in time, was interred in his family’s burial plot.
Read more from Winston Churchill
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5My Early Life: 1874-1904 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Essential Winston Churchill Collection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River War / An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLondon to Ladysmith via Pretoria Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My African Journey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Crisis (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Crisis — Complete Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Works of Winston Churchill Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Crisis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Crisis: Civil War Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Was a Spy!: The Classic Account of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ian Hamilton's March Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Celebrity (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRichard Carvel — Complete Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Works Of Winston Churchill A Linked Index Of The Project Gutenberg Editions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Crisis — Complete Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Far Country (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to A Far Country
Related ebooks
A Far Country — Complete Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Far Country (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Far Country — Volume 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Far Country Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLectures and Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man's World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Far Country: 'I was a corporation lawyer, but by no means a typical one'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Top 10 Short Stories - The English - Born Abroad Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLuck Was a Stranger: A Memoir Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTHE CONFESSIONS OF ARTEMAS QUIBBLE (Legal Thriller): Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of a Practitioner in New York Criminal Courts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarriage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Child of Apartheid: A Memoir of a Colored Capetonian Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen the World Shook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mysterious Lodger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Confessions of Artemas Quibble: Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of a Practitioner in New York Criminal Courts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Tramp's Notebook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMartin Chuzzlewit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God and My Neighbour Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen the World Shook Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Diary of a Japanese Convert Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOblivion: The Lost Diaries of Branwell Brontë Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEighty years and more reminiscences 1815-1897 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Potential Hazards of Hester Day: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSnobbery: The American Version Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
General Fiction For You
The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shantaram: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The King James Version of the Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rebecca Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything's Fine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Candy House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Far Country
1 rating1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For the last time, no this has nothing to do with the British Statesman. Winston Churchill was an American Author who peaked in the late 1800's. He was most famous for his historical novels and The Crisis is considered by most to be his crowning work. I enjoyed this book enough that I read two other Churchill books after, so that is saying something. In fact I went to a lot of work to find them as most of his stuff is out of print (probably all of it). This novel is built around the Civil War and is (in my opinion) a very entertaining piece of historical fiction. There is some interaction with the periods greats, some melodrama (it gets a bit soapy at times) but uses real events without being campy. Churchill tends to go over the top in some of his other stuff and the plot lines are a little less plausible (his book on the Revolutionary War Period is ridiculous) but in The Crisis he focuses on developing real characters with understandable motivations. He also manages to weave in actual people for cameo's that are fairly unobtrusive and don't distract from the novel's overall direction. I think the fact that he wrote this book less than 20 years after the end of the Civil War accounts for his ability to accurately present the emotions, the drive and decision making of the characters and plot in such a way that makes it real. I for one, really felt like I was seeing what it was actually like to live through the period. It's not a war book per se, it is more of a romantic thriller and does nothing to glamorize conflict and killing. Overall, I found it quite enjoyable and really wish I would have enjoyed his others half as much.