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The damnation of Theron Ware

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9780674190016
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
75 MB (78341659 bytes)
Series
The John Harvard Library
Pages
384\384
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 19:11:09

Description

This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science on innocence and the collective despair that marked the transition into the modern age. In its realism, The Damnation of Theron Ware foreshadows Howells; in its conscious imagery it prefigures Norris, Crane, Henry James, and the "symbolic realism" of the twentieth century. Its author, Harold Frederic, internationally famous as London correspondent for the New York Times, wrote the novel two years before his death.

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