Father and Son
by:
Edmund Gosse (author)
Edmund Gosse was an English author and literary critic. Gosse also found fame as a translator of Henrik Ibsen’s plays and he helped encourage the careers of James Joyce and W.B. Yeats.Gosse’s most famous work is Father and Son, a biography he published in 1907. The book describes Gosse’s early...
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Edmund Gosse was an English author and literary critic. Gosse also found fame as a translator of Henrik Ibsen’s plays and he helped encourage the careers of James Joyce and W.B. Yeats.Gosse’s most famous work is Father and Son, a biography he published in 1907. The book describes Gosse’s early years after the death of his mother when his father took them to live in Devon. Gosse discusses how his strict and religious father rejected some of the new evolutionary theories of his day and how Gosse himself came to reject his father’s religious beliefs. Father and Son is notable for being the first psychological biography ever written.
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781537811819
ASIN: B01N0RA0XE
Publish date: 2016-12-15
Publisher: Kypros Press
Pages no: 190
Edition language: English
bookshelves: published-1907, autumn-2014, autobiography-memoir, newtome-author, radio-4x, victorian, nonfiction, religion, christian, classic Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from September 17 to 26, 2014 Philip Henry Gosse en Edmund Gosse (1857)http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076vhg...
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