Prayer for the Living
Book by Bruce Marshall
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| Author | Bruce Marshall |
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| Language | English |
Publication date | 1934 |
| Publication place | Scotland |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Preceded by | Father Malachy's Miracle (1931) |
| Followed by | The Uncertain Glory (1935) |
Prayer for the Living is a 1934 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.
Plot summary
A witty, engrossing, unique novel about the life of masters and boys in a Scottish prep school. One way of describing this novel is to say that it is a story of life in a prep school in Scotland during World War I: and that, so far as the bare facts go, is an accurate description. But it is no way at all of conveying to the reader the devilish wit and cutting satire with which Mr. Marshall heightens and brightens the scene, or the pathos surrounding schoolboys who will overnight be turned into soldiers, or the moving idyl of love between the headmaster's daughter and a young student about to leave for the Front.[1][2]
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Works by Bruce Marshall
- A Thief in the Night (ca 1918)
- This Sorry Scheme (1924)
- The Stooping Venus (1926)
- Teacup Terrace (1926)
- And There Were Giants (1927)
- The Other Mary (1927)
- High Brows (1929)
- The Little Friend (1929)
- The Rough House, a possibility (1930)
- Children of This Earth (1930)
- Father Malachy's Miracle (1931)
- Prayer for the Living (1934)
- The Uncertain Glory (1935)
- Canon to the Right of Them (1936)
- Luckypenny (1937)
- Delilah Upside Down, a Tract, with a Thrill (1941)
- Yellow Tapers for Paris (1943)
- The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith (1944)
- George Brown's Schooldays (1946)
- Vespers in Vienna (1947)
- To Every Man a Penny (1949)
- The Fair Bride (1953)
- Only Fade Away (1954)
- Girl in May (1956)
- The Accounting (1958)
- A Thread of Scarlet (1959)
- The Divided Lady (1960)
- A Girl from Lübeck (1962)
- The Month of the Falling Leaves (1963)
- Father Hilary's Holiday (1965)
- The Bishop (1970)
- The Black Oxen (1972)
- Urban the Ninth (1973)
- Operation Iscariot (1974)
- Marx the First (1975)
- Peter the Second (1976)
- The Yellow Streak (1977)
- Prayer for a Concubine (1978)
- Flutter in the Dovecote (1986)
- A Foot in the Grave (1987)
- An Account of Capers (1988)
- The White Rabbit (1953)
- Thoughts of My Cats (1954)
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