Author: Barber, Elsie Oakes,
Title: Hunt for Heaven.
Description: NY, Macmillan, 1950. 1st prntg. G Hardback in Fair DJ (edge wear and tanning). Owner front endpaper. Story of Pastor John Bliff who saw rioting and bloodshed in the streets of Chicago. He revolted. against the world of greed and violence and tried to build the Kingdom of God in an old farmhouse of weathered fieldstone in the green hills of Pennsylvania, where he joined other people hunting for heaven too.The fortunes of the colony he never founded and particularly of his lovely daughter Rebecca who hid a rebellious heart beneath her sweet and prim exterior. The author has recaptured the idealistic fervor of famous 19th century communities as New Harmony and Fruitlands. She has brought to life the varied human beings who formed them, the pleasures of a community life, the humorous incidents side by side with the sruggle against risicule, poverty and disaster. And she has revealed through the adventures of the farm and through the conflict in Rebecca's heart between farther and lover, the reasons why none of these colonies achieved its aim.

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