The Innkeeper's Wife

The Innkeeper's Wife is a 1958 Christmas story, written by A. J. Cronin for The American Weekly. The story is about the wife of the innkeeper in Bethlehem who had no room for Mary and Joseph to spend the night. It originally appeared in the December 21 issue before being printed in book form by Hearst Publishing and is accompanied by Ben Stahl's beautiful illustrations.

Works by A. J. Cronin
Novels
  • Hatter's Castle
  • Three Loves
  • Grand Canary
  • The Stars Look Down
  • The Citadel
  • The Keys of the Kingdom
  • The Green Years
  • Shannon's Way
  • The Spanish Gardener
  • Beyond This Place
  • A Thing of Beauty/Crusader's Tomb
  • The Northern Light
  • The Native Doctor/An Apple in Eden
  • The Judas Tree
  • A Song of Sixpence
  • A Pocketful of Rye
  • The Minstrel Boy/Desmonde
  • Lady with Carnations
  • Gracie Lindsay
Selected short stories
& story collections
  • Kaleidoscope in "K"
  • Country Doctor
  • Vigil in the Night
  • The Valorous Years
  • Adventures of a Black Bag
  • The Innkeeper's Wife
  • Further Adventures of a Black Bag
  • Doctor Finlay of Tannochbrae
Play
  • Jupiter Laughs
Autobiography
  • Adventures in Two Worlds
UK/US film adaptations
  • Once to Every Woman
  • Grand Canary
  • The Citadel
  • Vigil in the Night
  • The Stars Look Down
  • Shining Victory
  • Hatter's Castle
  • The Keys of the Kingdom
  • The Green Years
  • The Spanish Gardener
  • Web of Evidence
Television adaptations
  • Escape From Fear
  • Beyond This Place
  • Nicholas
  • The Citadel (1960 American)
  • The Citadel (1960 British)
  • Dr. Finlay's Casebook
  • The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon
  • Memorandum van een dokter
  • La Cittadella (1964)
  • Novi asistent
  • O Jardineiro Espanhol
  • E le stelle stanno a guardare
  • The Stars Look Down
  • Les Années d'illusion
  • The Citadel (1983)
  • Doctor Finlay
  • La Cittadella (2003)

Famous quotes containing the words innkeeper and/or wife:

    He has been described as “an innkeeper who hated his guests, a philosopher, and poet who left no written record of his thought, a despiser of women who gave all he had to one, an aristocrat, a proletarian, a pagan, an arcadian, an atheist, a lover of beauty, and, inadvertently, the stepfather of domestic science in America.”
    —Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    When he has loved me,
    goes but a step away
    and returns
    to love me again,
    I’m like a wife whose husband’s away,
    as if for that instant
    he’s been exiled.
    Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)