The Saint (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: V. S. Pritchett
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: 1917
- Setting: An English market town
- Principal Characters: The narrator, His uncle, Hubert Timberlake
- Genres: Short fiction, Parody
- Subjects: Adolescence, Teenagers, Religion, 1910’s, Ministry or ministers, England or English people, Life, philosophy of
- Locales: England
The Story
The unnamed narrator lives with his uncle, the proprietor of a small furniture-manufacturing business, in an English county market town. The uncle is a prominent lay member of the small Church of the Last Purification, of Toronto, Canada. The Purifiers believe that God created everything; that God, being good, could not have made evil; and that what appears to be evil is an illusion. “Don’t let Error in” is a favorite slogan of the Purifiers: Do not believe in the reality of disease, misfortune, or death, for they are no more than illusions. Membership in the...
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