The Giant's Strength

The Giant's Strength' is a remarkable work by Basil King. He was a Canadian clergyman who became a writer after retiring from the clergy, and his novels were spiritually oriented. Excerpt from 'The Giant's Strength' "As it was the entr'acte of the opera the lobby of the Casino was filled with a gay and noisy cosmopolitan crowd. All the more, therefore, was it a proof of the celebrity to which Paul Trafford had attained that his entry caused a distinct and general thrill of curiosity. A man who was reckoned the richest in the world could not be other than an object of supreme interest to people whose first cry was money. "