num_pages: 624
description: Robert Elsmere was the most successful novel of its age. Published in 1888, it tells movingly of a young clergyman whose loss of faith puts a great strain on his marriage to a staunchly evangelical wife. Tolstoy thought Mrs. Ward the greatest English novelist of her time.
language: English
title: Robert Elsmere
titlecomplete: Robert Elsmere (The World's Classics)
genres: Literature, Classics, Novels, Victorian, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 76
publisher: Oxford University Press