![]() ![]() Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Son remains a classic of twentieth-century literature.Īs well as an illuminating introduction, this edition also provides a series of fascinating appendices including extracts from Philip Gosse's Omphalos and his harrowing account of his wife's death from breast cancer.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. A key document of the crisis of faith and doubt a penetrating exploration of the impact of evolutionary science an astute, well-observed, and moving portrait of the tensions of family life: Father and Father and Son - Edmund Gosse The Year 1907 Father and Son by Edmund Gosse Classic and tragic detailing his childhood under naturalist Phillip Henry Gosse (and Emily Gosse) who was part of the Open Brethren. ![]() In it Edmund Gosse recounts, with humour and pathos, his childhood as a member of a Victorian Protestant sect and his struggles to forge his own identity despite the loving control of his father. ![]() ![]() 'This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.'įather and Son stands as one of English literature's seminal autobiographies. ![]()
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