The Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic
Read by Greg W.
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. |