1896 Books (Book Guide) - 1896 Novels, the Damnation of Theron Ware, Facing the Flag, a Shropshire Lad, the Island of Doctor Moreau, Effi Briest (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 31. Chapters: 1896 novels, The Damnation of Theron Ware, Facing the Flag, A Shropshire Lad, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Effi Briest, International Cloud Atlas, Matter and Memory, Der Judenstaat, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The Wheels of Chance, The Other House, The Well at the World's End, In His Steps, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Tom Sawyer, Detective, Clovis Dardentor, 1896 in literature, The Heart of Princess Osra, A Prophetic Romance, The Great K & A Train Robbery, A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations, Merck Index, The Pirates of Malaysia, The Works of Max Beerbohm, Weir of Hermiston, Voluntary Socialism, Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, Tisab Ting, Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen, The Stock Exchange, Takekurabe, An Outcast of the Islands, Rodney Stone, The Manxman, The Children's Crusade, Russian Biographical Dictionary, Les aventures de M. Colin-Tampon, George's Mother, Songs of Travel and Other Verses, Zapad, Blouznivci na ich hor. Excerpt: 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. It is similar to Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh and Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry. It is written in a realistic style. The novel centers on the life of a Methodist pastor named Theron Ware who has recently moved to a fictional small town in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, which Frederic modeled after Utica, New York. A promising young pastor recently mar...