In the sooty provincial town of Coalchester, beside a gasometer, stands the little Nonconformist meeting-house called Zion. Its young minister, Theophil, is an aesthete who longs to bring art and the new spirit to his hard-headed congregation, and his literary recitals draw him into a tender, painful triangle between two very different women, Jenny and Isabel.
An ironic, affectionate novel of 1890s idealism from a leading figure of the Yellow Book circle. Download the free EPUB.