The Wilderness by Joseph Hocking

1 Jan 2024·
Joseph Hocking
Joseph Hocking
· 2 min read

Endellion lifted him up, and the dying man seized the pen. “I give everything I have here in Australia, and all I possess in Dulverton, Devon, England, or elsewhere, to my good friend Ralph Endellion. I’m dying, but my mind is sound. Robert Granville Dulverton.”

Joseph Hocking is the Lutheran Librarian’s favorite Christian novelist. During his lifetime he was widely read and greatly beloved throughout the English speaking world. Most of his books deal in some way with the struggles and conflicts of living as a Christian in the modern world.

The Lutheran Library is republishing many of Joseph Hocking’s novels. If you have any of Hocking’s 50 “lost” books, please contact us.

Contents

  • Titlepage
  • Contents
  • A Chance Meeting
  • Dulverton’s Story
  • Endellion’s Story
  • Temptation
  • Drifting With The Tide
  • 6 " Maaster Robert’’
  • 7 The Verdict Of Peters
  • 8 The Meeting
  • 9 The Servants’ Welcome
  • 10 The Church And The Vicar
  • 11 Miriam Donnithorne
  • 12 The Vicar Becomes Doubtful
  • 13 The Squire’s Welcome, And Miriam’s
  • 14 Arthur Dulverton And Squire Donnithorne
  • 15 Arthur And Miriam
  • 16 Endellion At Donnithorne Hall
  • 17 Endellion Tries To Explain
  • 18 Endellion And Miriam
  • 19 The Coming Of The Crisis
  • 20 Endellion’s Progress
  • 21 The Duel
  • 22 Miriam’s Birthday
  • 23 The Two Men
  • 24 Endellion’s Victory
  • 25 How Endellion’s Eyes Were Opened
  • 26 Endellion’s Story
  • 27 Out Into The Wilderness
  • 28 Afterwards
  • 29 How The Debt Was Paid
  • 30 The Wilderness

Publication Information

  • Lutheran Library edition first published: 2020 updated: 2024
  • Copyright: CC BY 4.0
Fiction
Joseph Hocking
Authors
Joseph Hocking
(1860-1937)
Joseph Hocking (1860-1937), was a Cornish writer and United Methodist Free Church minister. His novels were immensely popular in his lifetime. Many of his 100 books are available at no charge from the Lutheran Library.