Paul Faber Surgeon
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: George Macdonald
Binding: Hardback
Published: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1890
Condition:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Sunned spine. Bumped corners. Internally sound.
George MacDonald’s Paul Faber, Surgeon stands as a commanding work of Victorian fiction that confronts the tension between faith, science, and human conscience. The novel presents the life of Paul Faber, a rationalist physician whose skepticism collides with the spiritual convictions of those around him, most notably in his relationship with Dorothy Drake. MacDonald illustrates the moral and emotional struggles of a man torn between intellectual pride and the call of deeper truth, weaving a narrative that argues for the transformative power of belief and compassion. The story details the conflicts of love, mortality, and redemption with precision, offering readers a vivid portrait of Victorian society wrestling with modernity.
Author: George Macdonald
Binding: Hardback
Published: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1890
Condition:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Sunned spine. Bumped corners. Internally sound.
George MacDonald’s Paul Faber, Surgeon stands as a commanding work of Victorian fiction that confronts the tension between faith, science, and human conscience. The novel presents the life of Paul Faber, a rationalist physician whose skepticism collides with the spiritual convictions of those around him, most notably in his relationship with Dorothy Drake. MacDonald illustrates the moral and emotional struggles of a man torn between intellectual pride and the call of deeper truth, weaving a narrative that argues for the transformative power of belief and compassion. The story details the conflicts of love, mortality, and redemption with precision, offering readers a vivid portrait of Victorian society wrestling with modernity.