THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE: or Illumination.
by FREDERIC, Harold
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 512pp., green cloth, bright, t.e.g., untrimmed fore-edge
"This was the best selling book as well as the most important piece of contemporary literature published by S&K -Kramer 69" Theron Ware was a troubled Methodist minister. Theron Ware was a Methodist minister fired with ambition. "His contacts with the town's life lead him to become friendly with the Catholic priest, Father Forbes, and through him, Dr. Ledsmar and Celia Madden. In their society he comes to realize his own ignorance and naivete. Father Forbes shows him another religious world; the agnostic doctor puts doubes in his mind; Celia arouses his senses. Theron is finally denounced by all three when they discover that he mistakenly suspects Father Forbes and Celia of a liaison. - THESAURUS OF BOOK DIGESTS.
"This was the best selling book as well as the most important piece of contemporary literature published by S&K -Kramer 69" Theron Ware was a troubled Methodist minister. Theron Ware was a Methodist minister fired with ambition. "His contacts with the town's life lead him to become friendly with the Catholic priest, Father Forbes, and through him, Dr. Ledsmar and Celia Madden. In their society he comes to realize his own ignorance and naivete. Father Forbes shows him another religious world; the agnostic doctor puts doubes in his mind; Celia arouses his senses. Theron is finally denounced by all three when they discover that he mistakenly suspects Father Forbes and Celia of a liaison. - THESAURUS OF BOOK DIGESTS.
Synopsis
The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic. It is widely considered a classic of American literature by scholars and critics, though the common reader often has not heard of it. The novel reveals a great deal about turn-of-the-century provincial America, religious life, and the depressed state of intellectual and artistic culture in small towns.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0011377
- Title
- THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE
- Author
- FREDERIC, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Stone & Kimball
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- religion, crisis, New York fiction, Methodist, stone & kimball,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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