The Man Who Invented Sin (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Francis Whelan
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1920 and 1943
- Setting: Rural Ireland
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Sister Magdalen, Sister Chrysostom, Brother Virgilius, Brother Majellan, Lispeen
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Ireland or Irish people, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Nuns
- Locales: Ireland
The Story
In the 1920's, the Irish struggle for independence was waged on a cultural level as well as on a political front; on their summer vacations, Irish schoolteachers, many of them members of religious orders, flocked to the countryside to learn Irish. “The Man Who Invented Sin” is set against this background. As the story opens, it is the summer of 1920, and the narrator is staying in a mountain village that is crowded with summer students. He eventually finds lodging at the Ryder place, two miles out of town, down by the lake. He shares his new quarters with two...
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