One character in this novel has a laboratory at his home where he performs experiments on reptiles, bees, and his Chinese servant who is given progressively larger quantities of opium to see how much the human body can stand – that character is an Assyriologist who loans the protagonist his copy of Ernest Renan's Recollections of My Youth, which he reads twice.
One character in this novel has a laboratory at his home where he performs experiments on reptiles, bees, and his Chinese servant who is given progressively larger quantities of opium to see how much the human body can stand – that character is an Assyriologist who loans the protagonist his copy of Ernest Renan's Recollections of My Youth, which he reads twice. Erastus Winch makes a living by selling dairy furniture and farm utensils and Levi Gorringe is a lawyer with designs on the wife of the protagonist, who is himself infatuated with a woman who talks about her love for ancient Greece, vows never to marry, and plays Chopin, but who eventually rejects the protagonist in New York. That woman, Celia Madden, joins the other residents of the impoverished village of Octavius, Dr. Ledsmar and Father Forbes, in causing the title character to steadily lose his faith. FTP, name this 1896 novel, a classic of American literature written by Harold Frederic.
One character in this novel has a laboratory at his home where he performs experiments on reptiles, bees, and his Chinese servant who is given progressively larger quantities of opium to see how much the human body can stand – that character is an Assyriologist who loans the protagonist his copy of Ernest Renan's Recollections of My Youth, which he reads twice.
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