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Father and Son .NOVEL Edmund Gosse (Original Classics)

Father and Son .NOVEL Edmund Gosse (Original Classics)

Gosse, Edmund

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1530613965
ISBN13: 9781530613960
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 18 2016
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.27 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled a study of two temperaments. Edmund had previously published a biography of his father, originally published anonymously. The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who died early and painfully of breast cancer, was a writer of Christian tracts. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, was an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who, after his wife's death, took Edmund to live in Devon. The book focuses on the relationship between a sternly religious father who rejects the new evolutionary theories of his scientific colleague Charles Darwin and the son's gradual coming of age and rejection of his father's fundamentalist religion. As Michael Newton, Lecturer in English, University College London, has written, the book is a brilliant, and often comic, record of the small diplomacies of home: those indirections, omissions, insincerities, and secrecies that underlie family relationships. [B]rilliantly written, and full of gentle wit, the book is an unmatched social document, preserving for us whole the experience of childhood in a Protestant sect in the Victorian period....Above all, it is one of our best accounts of adolescence, particularly for those who endured...a religious upbringing

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