The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories

by Harold Frederic

Harold Frederic was for a long time known primarily as a writer of New York regional fiction and historical novels. His most outstanding and influential novel, The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) represents the first extended narrative in US literature of Irish-Catholic entry into American life. In 1995, a year short of that novel's centenary, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: "WHAT a wonderful novel is The Damnation of Theron Ware ." Though raised in a German-American,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081322781X
• ISBN13: 9780813227818
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"