Top 10 Out-of-Print Books

By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 26 November 2011, 01:04 IST
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2. Dear and Glorious Physician

The book was first published in 1959, and by May 1973 had sold 1.5 million copies. Today, this is a rare book to find as it has been out of print for a long time. Those who have read the book do not praise it too much, saying that it is too tedious and that the author’s liberal views are too deliberately shown.

The book Dear and Glorious Physician tells the story of St. Luke life. But nearly two thousand years ago he was Lucanus, a Greek and a man of science. Taylor Caldwell portrays him as a man who loved, knew the emptiness of bereavement, and later traveled through the hills and wastes of Judea asking, "What manner of man was my Lord?" It is this Lucanus that Caldwell brings to life in her inspiring novel.