# Diary of a Country Priest

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- Book: [Diary of a Country Priest](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-bernanos/diary-of-a-country-priest) ([Diary of a Country Priest.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-bernanos/diary-of-a-country-priest.md))
- Authors: [Georges Bernanos](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-bernanos)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-183-0
- Published: 2019-10-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

This quiet, imaginative novel is a study of faith in an increasingly hostile world. Through intimate journal entries, the author reveals the private life and struggles of a young, withdrawn, devout and sickly priest in northern France. Though his beliefs are sincere and profound, his enthusiasm quickly collides with the indifference and cowardice of his parishioners. Conversations with a confused young girl, an atheist doctor, a grieving countess, her spiteful teenage daughter, and a soldier illustrate the priest's own despair, doubts, joys, torments and ultimate appeal to grace.