The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination
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- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2002
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375760358 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375760350 |
| Author: | Harold Frederic, Joyce Carol Oates |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2002 |
| Weight: | 439g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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”[Frederic’s] most brilliant achievement.” -Edmund Wilson
“[Frederic’s] most brilliant achievement.” —Edmund Wilson
Harold Frederic
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, is the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and criticism. Noteworthy among her many novels are them, Blonde, and the recent Middle Age- A Romance.
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