Father and Son

First published anonymously in 1907, this memoir recounts Gosse's childhood and youth in a Plymouth Brethren household. His father, the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, reads the natural world through a strict evangelical scheme and cannot accept the new geology and evolutionary ideas. The son is raised in isolation from ordinary pleasures, trained for a life of faith, and slowly discovers literature, friendship, and a self that will not submit. The book is an autobiographical study of religious authority and intellectual revolt, ending as the young man claims independence. It is family history written as a conflict of two minds in one house.

Bound in white cloth blocked with a wrap-around colour picture. Grey slipcase.