Damnation of Theron Ware Or Illumination

Name: Damnation of Theron Ware Or Illumination
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ISBN: 9780140390254

ISBN-10: 0140390251

ISBN-13: 9780140390254

Edition: 1986

Authors: Harold Frederic, Scott Donaldson, Stanton Garner, Stanton Garner

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This tale of an ordinary man depicts, on a larger scale, the fall of intellectual America from innocence to knowledge at the end of the nineteenth century. Through his involvement with three women, Theron Ware, a small-town Methodist minister, finds that his abstract, absolute notions about himself and his world lead to doubt and confusion. Uncertain in his faith, Ware is alone and unprepared to meet the moral, scientific, and aesthetic ambiguities of the new century. Employing the documentary detail, pragmatic attitude, and comic vision of conventional realism, The Damnation of Theron Ware also foreshadows the rise of naturalism - and the works of Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis. As…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/7/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.67" wide x 7.72" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



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