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_aWood, Henry, _d1834-1909 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aEdward Burton |
| 250 | _aNinth edition. | ||
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-12-09 | ||
| 508 | _aSusan E., David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _aEdward Burton by Henry Wood is a novel written in the late 19th century. It follows a gifted, devout New Englander whose path toward the ministry is upended by illness and redirected by a turn to spiritual idealism, set against seaside society scenes where skeptics and believers debate evolution, marriage, and reform. Expect a blend of Bar Harbor social life, theological questioning, and a challenge to strict materialism. The opening of the novel moves from a languid canoe ride on Frenchman’s Bay into a lively dinner party where Miss Jenness spars with medical student Junius Van Roden over evolution and materialism, and the guests argue about woman suffrage, state power, and social “reforms.” The narrative then shifts back in time to New Hampshire, tracing Edward’s pious upbringing, his mother’s plan for the pulpit, and his diligent progress through academy and college. Guided away from Andover to Princeton by a conservative pastor, Edward excels in theology but collapses at graduation and endures a severe illness in Boston. There, aided by his friend William Tapley’s quiet, metaphysical counsel, he journals a hard passage from narcotics and despair toward calm, prayerful receptivity to divine love, regaining strength and preparing to return home with a newly awakened inner spirituality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cBoston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1890 |
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| 653 | _aAmerican fiction -- 19th century | ||
| 653 | _aUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aBar Harbor (Me.) -- Fiction | ||
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77430 |
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