''The Dwelling-Place of Light'' is a 1917 best-selling novel by American writer

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, the last of his twenty-year run of best-sellers. Like ''

The Inside of the Cup ''The Inside of the Cup'' is a 1913 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill. The story was first serialized in '' Hearst's Magazine'' from April 1912 through July 1913, and was released in book form in May 1913. The best-selling b ...

'' and ''

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'', the title has a biblical

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: "Where is the way to the dwelling of light?"Job 38:19, American Standard Version. Published in October 1917, it did not achieve as many sales as his prior novels.Schneider, Robert W. ''Novelist to a Generation: The Life and Thought of Winston Churchill'', p. 235 (1976) The novel was ranked 14th on

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annual list of bestselling fiction books for 1917, though the novel only came out in October of that year. It was ranked fifth on the Bookman's list for 1917.The Best-Sellers of 1917: The "Publishers Weekly's" Consensus
''American Library Annual 1917-1918'', pp. 100-01 (1918) It was also adapted into a silent film in 1920, directed by Jack Conway and starring Claire Adams, Nigel De Brulier, and

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References

The Dwelling Place of Light 1 by Jack Conway

External links

''The Dwelling-Place of Light'' at Project Gutenberg
1917 American novels American novels adapted into films Novels by Winston Churchill (novelist) {{1910s-novel-stub