Theron Ware, an earnest young Methodist preacher, is sent with his wife to the upstate New York town of Octavius. There a learned Catholic priest, a freethinking scientist and Celia Madden, a beautiful red-haired heiress, open a world of ideas and art that unsettles his creed, while the shrewd revivalist Sister Soulsby teaches him the business of religion.
An 1896 novel of belief, doubt and vanity, one of the strongest American books of the decade. Download the free EPUB.