TY - BOOK AU - More,Hannah TI - Coelebs In Search of a Wife AV - PR PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Didactic fiction KW - Conduct of life -- Fiction KW - Mate selection -- Fiction KW - Christian fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelebs_in_Search_of_a_Wife; Release date is 2010-04-04; Produced by Steven desJardins, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Coelebs In Search of a Wife" by Hannah More is a novel published in 1808. A wealthy young bachelor named Coelebs seeks a bride who can meet the strict moral standards set by his late mother. The novel combined storytelling with religious instruction, becoming the first nineteenth-century novel embraced by religious readers who previously viewed fiction as disreputable. Its popularity marked a turning point in making novels acceptable to conservative audiences, though modern critics consider it notably difficult to read. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31879 ER -