The Damnation of Theron Ware: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Damnation of Theron Ware, credited to Harold Frederic, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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Librivox recording of The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic. Read by Greg W. The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic. It is widely considered a classic of American realism. The novel reveals a great deal about turn-of-the-century provincial America, religious life, and the depressed state of intellectual and artistic culture in small towns. The novel centers on the life of a Methodist pastor named Theron Ware who has recently moved to a fictional small town in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, which Frederic modeled after Utica, New York. A promising young pastor recently married, Theron has a number of experiences that cause him to begin to question the Methodist religion, his role as a priest and even the very existence of God. His moral decline (or illumination) is heightened through his dealings with Father Forbes, the town's Catholic priest; Dr. Ledsmar, a local atheist, philosopher, and man of science; and Celia, a local Irish Catholic girl, a species of aesthete, with whom Theron becomes hopelessly infatuated. (Introduction by Wikipedia) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Damnation of Theron Ware
• Author credits: Harold Frederic
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 12:43:11

Catalogue topics

• Illumination
• American realism
• fiction
• religious life

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 21:41
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 27:41
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 23:04
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 20:45
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 19:36
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 23:18
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 21:24
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 20:21
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 25:32
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 23:34
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 22:09
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 18:15
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 24:23
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 26:32
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 24:16
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 24:34
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 24:23
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 21:58
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 31:20
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 23:34
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 30:34
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 24:55
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 23:06
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 28:41

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