The Minister's Charge (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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Author: William Dean Howells ISBN: 9781411459168
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publication: July 19, 2011
Imprint: Barnes & Noble Language: English
Author: William Dean Howells
ISBN: 9781411459168
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication: July 19, 2011
Imprint: Barnes & Noble
Language: English

This 1886 novel introduces Howells's concept—derived from Tolstoy—of moral complicity, which would play a large part in his fiction from this point on.  A poor farmer, Lemuel Barker, comes to Boston with dreams of becoming a poet.  Instead, his naïveté leaves him an easy mark, and he is soon destitute.  A minister, Sewell, is forced to consider his own complicity in Barker's fate . . . and by extension that of all his less-fortunate fellows.

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This 1886 novel introduces Howells's concept—derived from Tolstoy—of moral complicity, which would play a large part in his fiction from this point on.  A poor farmer, Lemuel Barker, comes to Boston with dreams of becoming a poet.  Instead, his naïveté leaves him an easy mark, and he is soon destitute.  A minister, Sewell, is forced to consider his own complicity in Barker's fate . . . and by extension that of all his less-fortunate fellows.

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