Elmer gantry
(2008)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2008
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 57 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781433222191 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT10026069, 1433222191 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 10026069
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Anthony Heald

Elmer Gantry is the portrait of a silver-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church, yet lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence. The title character starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Throughout the novel, Gantry encounters fellow religious hypocrites. Although often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited. Elmer Gantry is considered a landmark in American literature and one of the most penetrating studies of hypocrisy in modern literature. The novel also represents the evangelistic activity of America in the 1920s and people's attitudes toward it

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