Reviews for Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

The average rating for Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-01 00:00:00 Gerald Barnes [ I'm tempted to give this a Ted score of five on account of the dreadful battle waged within the soul of man against Young Earth Creationists, but a four is probably more reasonable (hide spoiler)]

Review # 2 was written on 2017-11-03 00:00:00 Kimberly Tily Another book I discovered through listening to the wonderful Backlisted podcast. Edmund Gosse (21 September 1849 � 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. Father and Son is his account of his childhood and his gradual questioning of the fundamentalist religion of his parents. All of which might make this book sound like a misery memoir, and yet nothing could be further from the truth. This is a charming, fascinating and insightful account of Victorian life in the mid-18th century with numerous wonderful little details. Father and Son is subtitled �A Study of Two Temperaments� and this signals the approach of Edmund Gosse. He retained enormous respect and affection for his father but ultimately there was to be no way for the different personalities to be true to themselves and reconcile their differences. It's beautifully written and, as I suggest, absolutely riveting, complete with numerous funny and idiosyncratic memories from a childhood spent both in Islington and, from around age 6, in Ilfracombe in Devon, then, as now, a small and sleepy backwater. I listened to Father and Son (1907) narrated by the peerless Geoffrey Palmer, and courtesy of Audible. Incredibly, this wonderful experience only set me back three British pounds. What a bargain. It's a wonderful book. 5/5