Puritans
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2014
391 pages
978-1-77658-556-4 (ISBN)
Description
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the chasm between religious faith and secular culture was more pronounced than ever before. That's the theme at the heart of Arlo Bates' novel The Puritans, which follows two seminary students as they struggle to reconcile their religious calling with the worldly pleasures that surround them.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- I - After Such a Pagan Cut
- II - There Begins Confusion
- III - As False as Stairs of Sand
- IV - Some Speech of Marriage
- V - Voluble and Sharp Discourse
- VI - Heart-Burning Heat of Duty
- VII - The Shot of Accident
- VIII - Like Covered Fire
- IX - His Pure Heart's Truth
- X - A Sympathy of Woe
- XI - In Place and in Account Nothing
- XII - The Only Touch of Love
- XIII - A Necessary Evil
- XIV - He Speaks the Mere Contrary
- XV - Heartsick with Thought
- XVI - The Great Assay of Art
- XVII - A Bond of Air
- XVIII - Cruel Proof of this Man's Strength
- XIX - 'Twas Wondrous Pitiful
- XX - In Way of Taste
- XXI - This "Would" Changes
- XXII - The Bitter Past
- XXIII - This Deed Unshapes Me
- XXIV - Farewell at Once, for Once, for All, and Ever
- XXV - Whom the Fates Have Marked
- XXVI - O Wicked Wit and Gift
- XXVII - Upon a Church Bench
- XXVIII - Bedecking Ornaments of Praise
- XXIX - Weighing Delight and Dole
- XXX - Parted Our Fellowship
- XXXI - How Chances Mock
- XXXII - Now He is for the Numbers
- XXXIII - A Mint of Phrases in His Brain
- XXXIV - What Time She Chanted
- XXXV - The World is Still Deceived
- XXXVI - The Heavy Middle of the Night
- XXXVII - This is Not a Boon
