Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) - Tapa blanda

Gosse, Edmund

 
9780140182767: Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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ISBN 10: 0140182764 ISBN 13: 9780140182767
Editorial: Penguin Classics, 1989

Sinopsis

Father and Son, a memoir first published anonymously in 1907, was Gosse's second book and is arecord of his struggle to 'fashion his inner life for himself.' 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 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. It was immediately acclaimed for its courage in flouting the conventions of Victorian autobiography and is still a moving account of self-discovery.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849 – 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhood in the book Father and Son has been described as the first psychological biography.

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Editorial
Penguin Classics
Año de publicación
1989
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0140182764
ISBN 13 
9780140182767
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Número de páginas
272
Editor
Abbs Peter
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ISBN 10:  0199539111 ISBN 13:  9780199539116
Editorial: Oxford University Press España, ..., 2009
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