A Book of Strange Sins

by Coulson Kernahan

Overview

"I do not remember to have read for a long time a study of the deadliness to soul and body—of what I may even call the murderousness of purely sensual passion—in which the moral is so finely, and I must use the word, awfully conveyed.... One of the hits of the season. I am not surprised." —The Weekly Sun.
"I do not know any piece of prose which opens up so many great questions in so few lines." —The Sketch.

"Such books are among the healthiest symptoms, not only of modern literature, but of modern thought. The book is a fine one, and I think it will live." — The Academy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663513076
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/04/2020
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Coulson Kernahan (1 August 1858 – 17 February 1943) was an English novelist. Critics often said that one of the reasons Kernahan's books were successful was due to his interesting, suspenseful titles such as A Dead Man's Diary or The Face Beyond the Door (1904), which often intrigued readers; their subsequent interest in these sensational works increased Kernahan's appeal as an author] According to Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, reviewing the highly successful God and the Ant (1895), "Mr. Kernahan is at his best in such imaginative exposition of his thoughts on the deep things of life and death...It is a rather bold allegory of the mystery of evil, with God – not his creatures – arraigned at the Judgement Day, and an attempted solution in the touching conception of a suffering Christ, whose agony did not cease with the Crucifixion, but was repeated in every human sorrow.