Father and son : a study of two temperaments / Edmund Gosse ; edited by Peter Abbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.

Contributor:

Abbs, Peter, 1942-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928--Childhood and youth.

Gosse, Edmund.

Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888.

Gosse, Philip Henry.

Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Fathers and sons.

Great Britain.

Fathers and sons--Great Britain--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

269 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm.

Manufacture:

1989.

Place of Publication:

London ; Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books in association with William Heinemann, [1983]

Summary:

"This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences, and almost two epochs. It ended, as was inevitable, in disruption. Of the two beings here described, one was born to fly backward, the other could not help being carried forward..". Thus begins this remarkable chronicle of the division between generations. Gosse was born in 1849 into a deeply religious household; both parents were pious members of the Plymouth Brethren, a narrow sect. This book, Gosse's masterpiece, was anonymously published in 1907.

Notes:

Originally published in 1907 by Heinemann, London.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-[270])

ISBN:

0140182764

9780140182767

OCLC:

153896394