![]() Though Whipple planned to write a sequel, she never finished one. Terryl Givens wrote that it is "perhaps the fullest cultural expression of the Mormon experience," and Eugene England stated it was the greatest Mormon novel. Fiction August 1941 A Prayer In the Forest Genet Bingham Dee: Author. Fiction 1941 A Pinch Of Dust Is A Dollar. ![]() ![]() Fiction December 1941 The Harvest Waits Lorene Pearson: Author. Fiction 1941 A Half Hour of Christmas Mabel S. After a resurgence in interest in Mormon literature in the 1970s and 1980s, the book became one of the best-known examples of a Mormon novel. The Giant Joshua Maurine Whipple: Author. Widtsoe, a prominent church leader, wrote that its treatment of polygamy was unfair, but that it showed the "epic value" of early settlements. Whipple embeds folk beliefs and narratives into her story, giving it greater depth.Ĭontemporary reviewers praised Whipple's realistic portrayal of Mormon pioneers in Utah and the way her realistic characters elicited sympathy. ![]() One of the themes of the work is how polygamy and enduring harsh conditions are both tests of faith. Clory survives through both emotional and physical hardship as she experiences the deaths of her children and multiple miscarriages, near-starvation due to drought and floods, and emotional neglect from Abijah. The novel focuses on the life of Clorinda (Clory), who becomes the third wife of Abijah MacIntyre and lives in Southern Utah during its early years of colonization by Mormon pioneers. ![]()
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