Marion’s Faith by Charles King
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May 2024
Originally published 1886
Fiction, Charles King collection
Author: Charles King
ePublished by
May 2024
Originally published 1886
Fiction, Charles King collection
Author: Charles King
No writer is better than Charles King at bringing the reader vividly and realistically into the life of a U. S. Army soldier during the late-19th-early-20th century. Because of his personal experience as an officer in the conflicts of that period, he not only gets the historical details correct, but also the settings, moods, and day-to-day life, including the personal, romantic, financial, and family life of the soldiers living on those far-flung military posts along the western frontier.
Marion’s Faith: A sequel to The Colonel’s Daughter was Mr. King’s attempt to capitalize on The Colonel’s Daughter (1882), his first real commercial success. By re-introducing many of the same characters featured therein as featured characters herein—and introducing brand new beloved characters that go on to star in future books (I am thinking of Mr. Blake especially, who ends up as the titular character of his own novel), Mr. King makes us feel like we are part of a close-knit, Wild West, U. S. Army, cavalry family. The end result of all this character re-use is a series of novels in which the reader continually sees favorite characters in different circumstances, as though meeting old friends in new places.
Marion’s Faith: A sequel to The Colonel’s Daughter was Mr. King’s attempt to capitalize on The Colonel’s Daughter (1882), his first real commercial success. By re-introducing many of the same characters featured therein as featured characters herein—and introducing brand new beloved characters that go on to star in future books (I am thinking of Mr. Blake especially, who ends up as the titular character of his own novel), Mr. King makes us feel like we are part of a close-knit, Wild West, U. S. Army, cavalry family. The end result of all this character re-use is a series of novels in which the reader continually sees favorite characters in different circumstances, as though meeting old friends in new places.