This is a very interesting old book. The story is fascinating and very well written. The book was published in 1948 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. The book measures 5 ¾ inches by 8 ½ inches and contains 581 pages. The dust jacket is a bit tattered and is currently in a protective cover. The orange cloth cover of the book itself shows minor signs of wear, hardly worth mentioning. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of the book itself is very good.

Excerpt – Dust Jacket:
The Big Fisherman, begun in 1943 and completed in the summer of 1948, is the eleventh of the Lloyd C. Douglas novels. Through these novels Lloyd C. Douglas has become America’s most beloved writer. His millions of devoted readers will find in The Big Fisherman the culmination of his genius and his inspiration.

The Big Fisherman is the story of Simon Peter, that most lovable and human of the Apostles of Jesus. You meet him first at the Sea of Galilee, a powerful two-fisted, profane and irreverent fishing boss, who lays down his nets to follow Jesus to Calvary.

But the world of Peter on the shores of Galilee was the crossroads of the world, warring then as it is now. It was a polyglot world of quarreling, scheming people living unmolested by Rome, only because he was busy in the West. Mr. Douglas has taken his characters from all these people. There is Fara, half Arabian and half Jewish, who rides into Palestine on an errand of vengeance, and Voldi, a young Arabian noble, who takes up the errand when Fara is purged of her hate. In The Big Fisherman, the characters of the greatest story in Western culture live in three dimensions—Joseph of Arimathea, Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas, Herod, Antipas, John and the other Apostles.

The Big Fisherman is a big book. It accounts for the five-thousand-year old feud between the Arabians and the Jews. It is a daring book, for in it Jesus is Himself a central character. No other writer could have so illumined the Passion Story. Only the man who wrote The Robe could have written The Big Fisherman.
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