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Beyond the Gates: A Novel of Faith, Grief, and the Hope of the Afterlife
Hardcover
HorrorClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515424321
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps explores grief, faith, death, and the hope of reunion beyond the visible world in this reflective spiritual novel. Beyond the Gates continues the emotional and theological territory that made Phelps famous: the longing to know what awaits after death, the human need for consolation, and the possibility that heaven may be more intimate, loving, and recognizable than traditional religious imagination often allowed.
Written with Phelps's characteristic sympathy for sorrowing families, bereaved lovers, and questioning souls, the novel blends religious fiction, spiritual speculation, domestic feeling, and nineteenth-century women's literature. Rather than treating death as a remote abstraction, Phelps approaches it through personal experience and emotional need, asking what kind of afterlife could answer the deepest wounds of human separation.
For readers interested in classic women's fiction, Christian imagination, spiritualist-era literature, Victorian religious fiction, and nineteenth-century meditations on immortality, Beyond the Gates offers a moving example of Phelps's enduring concern with consolation, moral seriousness, and the life of the soul after death.
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