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A naïve pastor falls under the spell of a sophisticated circle of friends in this gripping tale of an ambitious young man's disillusionment. Upon his move to a small town in New York State's Adirondack Mountains, Theron Ware encounters disturbing new ideas in the company of a Catholic priest, an atheist physician, and a seductive aesthete. Ware's new companions and their worldly views raise troubling questions that lead him to re-examine his commitment to Methodism and his vocation, as well as his faith in God. This Faustian tale of the spiritual disin-tegration 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.
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"[Frederic's] most brilliant achievement." --Edmund Wilson
"ÝFrederic's¨ most brilliant achievement." --Edmund Wilson
[Frederic s] most brilliant achievement. Edmund Wilson"
About the Author:
"ÝFrederic's¨ most brilliant achievement." --Edmund Wilson
[Frederic s] most brilliant achievement. Edmund Wilson"
Harold Frederic (1856–1898) was an Anglo-American journalist and novelist. Frederic was born in Utica, New York to Presbyterian parents. After his father was killed in a train accident when Frederic was 18 months old, the boy was raised primarily by his mother. He finished school at fifteen, and soon began work as a photographer. For four years he was a photographic touch-up artist in his hometown and in Boston. In 1875 he began work as a proofreader for the Utica Herald and then the Utica Daily Observer. Frederic later became a reporter, and by 1882 he was editor of the Albany Evening Journal. Two years later he went to live in England as London correspondent of the New York Times, and was soon recognized for his ability both as a writer and as a talker. He wrote several early stories, but it was not until he published Illumination (1896), better known by its American title, The Damnation of Theron Ware, followed by Gloria Mundi (1898), that his gifts as a novelist were fully realized. Jonathan Yardley called Damnation "a minor classic of realism". Frederic married Grace Green Williams in 1877, and they had five children.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1505998921
- ISBN 13 9781505998924
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages196
- EditorJonson Will
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