father_and_son_0901_librivox Edmund Gosse audio librivoxaudio audio_bookspoetry opensource_audio <a href="http://librivox.org/">LibriVox</a> recording of Father and Son by Edmund Gosse. Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who dies early and painfully of breast cancer, is a writer of Christian tracts. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, is an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who, after his wife's death, takes Edmund to live in Devon. The book focuses on the father's response to the new evolutionary theories, especially those of his scientific colleague Charles Darwin, and Edmund's gradual rejection of both his father and his father's fundamentalist religion.[Summary from Wikipedia] For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit <a href="http://librivox.org/">LibriVox.org</a>. 2009-01-06 2009 non fiction; gosse; memoirs; religion; audiobook; librivox; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ 2009-01-07 00:07:48 info@librivox.org LibriVox Librivox recording of a public-domain text 2009-01-07 01:38:28 librivoxbooks