SOURCE: "Faith and Fiction: Hugh MacLennan's The Watch That Ends the Night," in Canadian Literature, No. 128, Spring, 1991, pp. 39-50.
In the following essay, Pell examines religious and spiritual themes in The Watch That Ends the Night, arguing that the novel's primary subject is a "search for religious peace—a truce between man's spirit and his fate."
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