The Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic
Read by Greg W.
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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 realism. 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.
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 married, Theron has a number of experiences that cause him to begin to question the Methodist religion, his role as a priest and even the very existence of God. His moral decline (or illumination) is heightened through his dealings with Father Forbes, the town's Catholic priest; Dr. Ledsmar, a local atheist, philosopher, and man of science; and Celia, a local Irish Catholic girl, a species of aesthete, with whom Theron becomes hopelessly infatuated. (Introduction by Wikipedia) (0 hr 43 min)
Chapters
01 - Chapter 1 | 21:41 | Read by Greg W. |
02 - Chapter 2 | 27:41 | Read by Greg W. |
03 - Chapter 3 | 23:04 | Read by Greg W. |
04 - Chapter 4 | 20:44 | Read by Greg W. |
05 - Chapter 5 | 19:36 | Read by Greg W. |
06 - Chapter 6 | 23:17 | Read by Greg W. |
07 - Chapter 7 | 21:24 | Read by Greg W. |
08 - Chapter 8 | 20:20 | Read by Greg W. |
09 - Chapter 9 | 25:32 | Read by Greg W. |
10 - Chapter 10 | 23:34 | Read by Greg W. |
11 - Chapter 11 | 22:08 | Read by Greg W. |
12 - Chapter 12 | 18:14 | Read by Greg W. |
13 - Chapter 13 | 24:23 | Read by Greg W. |
14 - Chapter 14 | 26:32 | Read by Greg W. |
15 - Chapter 15 | 24:16 | Read by Greg W. |
16 - Chapter 16 | 24:34 | Read by Greg W. |
17 - Chapter 17 | 24:23 | Read by Greg W. |
18 - Chapter 18 | 21:57 | Read by Greg W. |
19 - Chapter 19 | 31:20 | Read by Greg W. |
20 - Chapter 20 | 23:33 | Read by Greg W. |
21 - Chapter 21 | 30:34 | Read by Greg W. |
22 - Chapter 22 | 24:55 | Read by Greg W. |
23 - Chapter 23 | 23:05 | Read by Greg W. |
24 - Chapter 24 | 28:41 | Read by Greg W. |
25 - Chapter 25 | 29:42 | Read by Greg W. |
26 - Chapter 26 | 19:59 | Read by Greg W. |
27 - Chapter 27 | 12:56 | Read by Greg W. |
28 - Chapter 28 | 27:24 | Read by Greg W. |
29 - Chapter 29 | 25:25 | Read by Greg W. |
30 - Chapter 30 | 30:20 | Read by Greg W. |
31 - Chapter 31 | 28:16 | Read by Greg W. |
32 - Chapter 32 | 13:41 | Read by Greg W. |