The Damnation of Theron Ware

Frederic, Harold

ISBN 10: 0674190017 / ISBN 13: 9780674190016

Published by Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960, Cambridge, MA, 1960

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Pb. VG-. 355 pp. Edited by Everett Carter. Spine creases, fading, owner endpaper. Seller Inventory # 119300

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Damnation of Theron Ware

Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960, Cambridge, MA

Publication Date: 1960

Binding: Pb

Condition: VG-

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Synopsis:

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.

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.