The Valley of Vision

The Valley of Vision gathers Van Dyke's meditative romances and "half-told tales" into a volume shaped by the moral aftershocks of the First World War. Blending adventure, parable, and reflective prose, the book moves through landscapes both literal and spiritual, where courage, sacrifice, grief, and hope are tested. Its style is characteristically limpid and elevated: a late-Victorian/Edwardian lyricism joined to Protestant moral earnestness, with the short tale used less for surprise than for revelation. In literary context, it belongs to the period's Christian humanist response to modern violence, seeking vision in a darkened valley. Henry Van Dyke-American clergyman, Princeton professor of English literature, popular essayist and poet, and U.S. minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg-wrote from a life steeped in Scripture, nature, public service, and letters. His diplomatic experience during Europe's wartime crisis, together with his pastoral imagination, helps explain the book's fusion of international concern and inward consolation. Readers drawn to reflective fiction, wartime moral inquiry, and graceful devotional prose will find this volume rewarding. It is especially suited to those who value stories that console without simplification and affirm humane faith amid historical catastrophe.

Pagina's: 120, Paperback, Sharp Ink