The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination - Brossura

Frederic, Harold

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140390251 ISBN 13: 9780140390254

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1986

Riassunto

A candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature.

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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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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140390251
• ISBN 13: 9780140390254
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Redattore: Garner Stanton