Harold Frederic (1856-1898) was an American journalist, foreign correspondent, and novelist. He was born in Utica, New York, to Presbyterian parents. He wrote several early stories, ranging from the American Revolution to the Civil War, but it was not until he published Illumination in 1896, better known by its American title, The Damnation of Theron Ware, followed by Gloria Mundi in 1898, that his gifts as a novelist were fully realized.
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Theron Ware is a promising young Methodist pastor recently assigned to a congregation in the Adirondack Mountains, which Frederic modeled after Utica, New York. His education and experiences have been limited to church society and his strict enforcement o... SEE MORE