Libris

last updated: 10 December 2008

• home and news
• about Libris
• list of publications
• links
• orders and distribution

j. a. froude

The Nemesis of Faith

This novel of the struggle between atheism and Roman Catholicism caused a scandal when it first appeared and was publicly burned in an Oxford college.

The author (1819–94) became Professor of Modern History at Oxford.

reviews

‘Froude’s novel is indispensable to our understanding of the atmosphere – both of thought and feeling – of Victorian religious thought’

A. S. Byatt

Links:

Related books published by Libris:

• The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford and Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance