The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Frederic, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140390251 ISBN 13: 9780140390254

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1986

Synopsis

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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About this title

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: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140390251
• ISBN 13: 9780140390254
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384