STODDARD, CHARLES WARREN - The Wonder-Worker of Pauda

Notre Dame, IN: The Ave Maria, 1896. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on an ALS letter that has been tipped-into the book. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing, bumping and wear. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The front inner hinge has cracked and the rear inner hinge has started. Tipped in is a small, two page letter discussing Stoddard's intent to visit and desire to stay for dinner. "In 1864 he visited the South Sea Islands and there wrote his Idyls, letters he sent to a friend who had them published in book form. "They are," wrote William Dean Howells, "the lightest, sweetest, wildest, freshest things that were ever written about the life of that summer ocean." He made four other trips to the South Sea Islands, and wrote his impressions in Lazy Letters from Low Latitudes and The Island of Tranquil Delights. Stoddard visited Molokai several times and became well acquainted with Father Damien–a Catholic saint since 2009–who ministered to the lepers there. Stoddard's The Lepers of Molokai, according to Robert Louis Stevenson, did much to establish Father Damien's position in public esteem. In 1867, soon after his first visit to the South Sea Islands, Stoddard was received into the Catholic Church. He told the story of his conversion in a small book, A Troubled Heart and How it was Comforted, of which he said: "Here you have my inner life all laid bare." " ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .

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