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In the Arena by Isobel Kuhn

ByRob
Cover image: Isobel Kuhn [1902-1957], In the Arena.

In this book Isobel Kuhn completes her autobiography, started in By Searching. My thanks to Book Aid for providing a copy of this book for digitisation and to OMF International-UK for their kind permission to place it online.

Isobel Kuhn [1902-1957], In the Arena. London: China Inland Mission, 1959. Hbk. pp.192. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Contents

  1. Obstacles (1024)
  2. Uncongenial Work (1925)
  3. Secret Choices (1926)
  4. Crossed Nature (1928-30)
  5. Frustrations (1928-50)
  6. Extinguished Candle-flames (1942)
  7. Small Harassments (1942-44)
  8. Taut Nerves (1944-46)
  9. Seeming Defeat (1948)
  10. Between the Scissors’ Knives (1949)
  11. Stranded at World’s End (1950)
  12. Dread Disease (1954-57)

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