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Father and Son

Edmund Gosse

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1907
Pages
Pages 250

The child sets a chair upon a table by the window, kneels, and prays to it: O Chair. It is an experiment, coolly designed: if the God of his father punishes idolatry, then let this be idolatry, and let something happen.

book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.
Father and Son, Edmund Gosse

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