I Heard the Owl Call My Name is about a young vicar and his time in an ancient Indian village during a time of cultural change. It is a journey of learning and all the small happenings that can add up to significance.
Mark Brian is sent to the village of Kingcome to serve as vicar for a parish consisting of many remote villages and logging camps in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Although he does not know it, he has been diagnosed with a fatal disease and has only two to three years to live. His bishop sends him to Kingcome in the hope that Mark will learn enough, fast enough, to be prepared to die.
Chance and bad weather led Deborah St. James and the vicar of Winslough to London's National Gallery to view Leonardo da Vinci's study for his Virgin and Child. The vicar's comment that Joseph is missing from the picture strikes a chord with Deborah, whose inability to bear a child has caused her deep grief and widened the growing rift between her and her husband. Comforted by the vicar's words and affected by his description of the solitude and opportunities for contemplation surrounding his northern village, Deborah persuades Simon to take her on a country holiday in Lancashire where she can regain her peace of mind and see the vicar again.
Added by: frufru2 | Karma: 306.02 | Fiction literature | 13 February 2010
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The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction.
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke is a children's story written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It was first published in London in 1991 by Jonathan Cape. The principal character is a dyslexic vicar, and the book was written to benefit the Dyslexia Institute in London
