Harold Frederic

Gloria Mundi

Novel of a woman's ambition and social climbing in gilded age New York

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Harold Frederic
Harold Frederic

Harold Frederic combined realism and regionalism in fiction set in upstate New York, culminating in The Damnation of Theron Ware, a landmark novel of religious doubt and social ambition. His premature death cut short a major career.

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