The Damnation of Theron Ware (Literary Classics) - Softcover

Frederic, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573921696 ISBN 13: 9781573921695

Publisher: Prometheus, 1997

Synopsis

Novelist Harold Frederic (1856-1898) played a critical role in the development of realistic American fiction. His best work analyzes the narrow-mindedness of small towns of his native upstate New York. Frederic's most famous novel, The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896), chronicles the life of a young Methodist minister who, as he falls under the influence of progressive ideas, becomes a skeptic. He comes to regard his old religion as morally and spiritually bankrupt, but in the process is nearly destroyed for his unbelief. Frederic's depiction of intolerance, and of the darker side of human nature, is comparable to the works of Emile Zola and Sinclair Lewis.

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From the Inside Flap:

Published in 1896, "The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination is a profound psychological portrait of the spiritual undoing of a guileless Methodist minister who is taken in by a rural townspeople's various progressive ideas, from liberalism to bohemianism, only to be spurned by them for being too conventional. Described by Everett Carter as "among the four or five best novels written by an American during the nineteenth century," the novel, as Joyce Carol Oates writes in her Introduction, has "shrewd, disturbing insights into the human pysche."
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the authoritative Harold Frederic Edition.

From the Back Cover:

“[Frederic’s] most brilliant achievement.” —Edmund Wilson

About this edition

• Publisher: Prometheus
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1573921696
• ISBN 13: 9781573921695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322