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Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903)

Autore di The Life of Christ

94 opere 1,300 membri 12 recensioni

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Nota di disambiguazione:

(eng) Often called Dean Farrar

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Opere di Frederic William Farrar

The Life of Christ (1874) 316 copie
History of Interpretation (1886) 88 copie
Eric, or Little by Little (1858) 57 copie
The Minor Prophets (1907) 24 copie
Darkness and Dawn (1891) 20 copie
Seekers after God (1884) 20 copie
Eternal hope (1878) 19 copie
Julian Home (2012) 16 copie
The voice from Sinai (2023) 11 copie
The fall of man (1876) — Autore — 11 copie
The Book of Daniel (1895) 11 copie
In the days of thy youth (2009) 8 copie
Truths to live by (2001) — Autore — 8 copie
Woman's Work in the Home (1896) 4 copie
Men I have known (1897) 3 copie
Life of Christ Vol. IV (1891) 1 copia
Þrír Vinir 1 copia
Life of Christ Vol. III (1891) 1 copia
Life of Christ Vol. V (1891) 1 copia
THE HERODS (1898) 1 copia

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Idealiserad skildring Jesu liv, mest intressant för bilder och tidsanda
 
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CalleFriden | 2 altre recensioni | Feb 26, 2023 |
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UFTL | 2 altre recensioni | Aug 17, 2021 |
Here's another of those books read by the protagonist of Of Human Bondage, Philip. Gah!

This was pretty awful. I thought it might be one of those archetypal British school boys books. I rather liked Stalky and Company when I read it, both as a youth and again as a more "mature" person. A year of so ago, I tried Tom Brown's School Days and found it unreadable, so I gave up on it. Anyway, perhaps this book is also meant to be a British school boy book, but it was also flagrantly written to provide moral teaching to young boys. What it actually shows, however, is a complete moral bankruptcy on the part of the author.

So, we have adolescent boys doing the kinds of things adolescent boys do. They have some rules handed down from above, but aren't given reasons for those rules other than being told, I suppose, that breaking them will inevitably lead to moral decay. But, the masters in the school pretty much ignore the boys and they, being adolescent boys, run amok when they can. Once in a while, they are caught stepping over the ill-defined lines (one of their masters awakes from his un-noticing moralistic trance, or something), and then their good, moral masters beat the living crap out of them with sticks. So, that's how we make Christians out of people: set incongruous rules; publicly humiliate people who break the rules, even inadvertently; and beat the living crap out of them if they piss the masters off too much with their adolescent behavior.

Then you have teenage boys constantly crying about one thing or another, holding hands, hooking their arms around each other's necks, and so forth. In what planet does that happen?
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lgpiper | 3 altre recensioni | Jun 21, 2019 |
This was an extremely popular Victorian boys' book. Farrar's style is lively and engaging and he is clearly writing about what he knows. The plot, however---a sort of Pilgrim's Regress---strains our credulity. A lifetime's worth of poor decisions and moral deterioration is crammed into a few years of Eric's youth, with consequences that seem out of proportion. Laissez-faire school leadership which allows all this presented without apparent judgement on Farrar's part, as is the absence of Eric's parents, stationed in India. Personal responsibility and Muscular Christianity should be enough, appparently. But time and again firm purpose of amendment is undermined by false pride and a desire for popularity which a modern psychologist might attribute to emotional neglect. Schoolboy crushes are presented in deeply romantic terms with no hint of moral objection. A puzzling environment, but the backdrop to a great deal of Victorian literature.… (altro)
 
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booksaplenty1949 | 3 altre recensioni | Dec 24, 2018 |

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ISBN
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