The Lincoln Stories Of Human Hearts

The Lincoln Stories of Honore Morrow Containing: Benefits Forgot, Bearer Than all, The Lost Speech of Abraham Lincoln Original Edition Publisher-Printing Location: Stratford Press, New York Triangle Books Date: March 1938 Size and Page Count: 5"" X 7.25"" Tall Condition: -Very Good- with dust cover in -Good- condition. The Colored Dust cover advertised the movie 'Of Human Hearts' based on the first story 'Benefits Forgot' with James Stewart, Walter Huston and Bullah Bondi. Text on cover ""A metro goldwyn Mayer production starring Walter Huston and James Stewart. Book blue cloth binding, tight with crisp pages Illustrations Information: Illustrated by Charles E. Cartwright ----Condition: -Very Good- with dust cover in -Good- condition. The Colored Dust cover advertized the movie 'Of Human Hearts' based on the first story 'Benefits Forgot' with James Stewart, Walter Huston and Bullah Bondi. Text on cover "A metro goldwyn Mayer production starring Walter Huston and James Stewart. Book blue cloth binding, tight with crisp pages
Illustrations Information: Illustrated by Charles E. Cartwright
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The movie 'Of Human Hearts' is a 1938 film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Walter Huston, James Stewart and Beulah Bondi. Bondi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.The story takes place shortly before the Civil War and centers on the young son of a poor country preacher who decides he wants to become a doctor much to his father's displeasure and his mother's secret approval. From the very beginning he is shown to be an ingrate, full of embarrassment and shame for the shabby living conditions and tattered hand-me-down clothes grudgingly provided to the family by the community in place of payment for his father's services as preacher. He is forever getting his sweet mother played by the great Bullah Bondi to sell off cherished family heirlooms to meet his selfish wants and with no appreciation at all for the sacrifice. As the years pass and he grows into manhood, the conflict between father and son becomes harsher by the day, until finally the two come to blows which pushes the son to leave town and pursue his dream of becoming a Doctor. He works his way through medical school by cleaning the headmaster's apartment, and with the continued sell-off of his mother's things but soon after entering medical school his father becomes ill and dies. Now his poor mother is left all alone to fare for herself with only the friendship of the town drunk to lean on for moral support. As the Civil War escalates the young doctor is enlisted as an army surgeon and after several years away at war without even as much as a letter, his mother