Father and Son [electronic resource]
Gosse, Edmund1989
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At birth Edmund Gosse was dedicated to 'the Service of the Lord'. His parents were Plymouth Brethren. After his mother's death Gosse was brought up in stifling isolation by his father, a marine biologist whose faith overcame his reason when confronted by Darwin's theory of evolution. Father and Son is also the record of Gosse's struggle to 'fashion his inner life for himself' - a record of whose full and subversive implications the author was unaware, as Peter Abbs notes in his Introduction. First published anonymously in 1907, Father and Son was immediately acclaimed for its courage in flouting the conventions of Victorian autobiography and is still a moving account of self-discovery.
Main title:
Father and Son [electronic resource] / Edmund Gosse
Author:
Gosse, Edmund, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Books Ltd, 1989
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Penguin Classics
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141958743
Language:
English
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BRN:
2906203