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Harold Frederic was for a long time known primarily as a writer of
New York regional fiction and historical novels. His most
outstanding and influential novel, The Damnation of Theron Ware
(1896) represents the first extended narrative in US literature of
Irish-Catholic entry into American life. In 1995, a year short of
that novel's centenary, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: "WHAT a wonderful
novel is The Damnation of Theron Ware." Though raised in a
German-American, Methodist environment in the Mohawk Valley of New
York state, Frederic became intrigued with Ireland's people,
politics, and history when post-Famine Irish began arriving in his
hometown of Utica in the 1860s and 1870s. The Martyrdom of Mave and
other Irish Stories gathers for the first time all of the Irish
work Harold Frederic completed in his lifetime. He planned more,
but died of a stroke in his early forties, in England, where he was
employed as The New York Times London Correspondent. He had earlier
written his publisher that he had been "toiling for years" on the
archeology of the Iveagha (present Mizen) Peninsula in Cork, and
that the projected book of historical fiction underway would be
unique. The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories brings
together the four sixteenth-century stories that Frederic finished
and published in magazines in 1895-96, and two of his stories set
in the west of Ireland of the second-half of the nineteenth
century. Taken together the stories track the ramifications of the
Elizabethan invasions as they extend to the famine, evictions, and
humiliations still plaguing the country just before the rise of
Parnell. The dramatic title story involves young romance caught in
the political unrest that begot the Land-League and portrays as
well the adamant, menacing, sexual prohibitions prevailing in the
rural Ireland of the late nineteenth century. Others portray life
within the remote Gaelic clans of late medieval Ireland. All the
stories reveal Frederic's brilliant prose talent-"The Path of
Murtogh," for example, a starkly primitive revenge tale, is as dark
and shocking as anything by Edgar Allen Poe. For those who like
Harold Frederic's fiction, or who love dramatic tales set in
Ireland, this collection makes for compelling reading.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the
classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer
them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so
that everyone can enjoy them.
The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) is a novel by Harold Frederic.
Inspired by his upbringing in Utica, New York, The Damnation of
Theron Ware is a story of faith, community, and rural life from an
underappreciated master of American realism. A bestseller in the
year of its publication, the novel has earned praise for its
criticism of cultural and religious hypocrisy in nineteenth century
provincial life. "No such throng had ever before been seen in the
building during all its eight years of existence. People were
wedged together most uncomfortably upon the seats; they stood
packed in the aisles and overflowed the galleries; at the back, in
the shadows underneath these galleries, they formed broad, dense
masses about the doors, through which it would be hopeless to
attempt a passage." Despite his young age, Theron Ware has been
appointed pastor of a small-yet-lively Methodist congregation in
the Adirondack Mountains of New York. As he settles into his role
and attempts to gain the trust of the townsfolk, he begins to doubt
himself as a messenger of God and to question the role of the
Methodist church in the life of humankind. Influenced by local
Catholics and a passionate Darwinist, Ware starts to dream of
changing his life, of leaving the world of faith and salvation
behind him. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Harold Frederic's The Damnation
of Theron Ware is a classic work of American literature reimagined
for modern readers.
The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) is a novel by Harold Frederic.
Inspired by his upbringing in Utica, New York, The Damnation of
Theron Ware is a story of faith, community, and rural life from an
underappreciated master of American realism. A bestseller in the
year of its publication, the novel has earned praise for its
criticism of cultural and religious hypocrisy in nineteenth century
provincial life. "No such throng had ever before been seen in the
building during all its eight years of existence. People were
wedged together most uncomfortably upon the seats; they stood
packed in the aisles and overflowed the galleries; at the back, in
the shadows underneath these galleries, they formed broad, dense
masses about the doors, through which it would be hopeless to
attempt a passage." Despite his young age, Theron Ware has been
appointed pastor of a small-yet-lively Methodist congregation in
the Adirondack Mountains of New York. As he settles into his role
and attempts to gain the trust of the townsfolk, he begins to doubt
himself as a messenger of God and to question the role of the
Methodist church in the life of humankind. Influenced by local
Catholics and a passionate Darwinist, Ware starts to dream of
changing his life, of leaving the world of faith and salvation
behind him. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Harold Frederic's The Damnation
of Theron Ware is a classic work of American literature reimagined
for modern readers.
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