The Gates Ajar

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Original title: The gates ajar

first published 1869 Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018 hardcover 254 pages

CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches -- no. 32331

The Gates Ajar is a religious novel by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (later Elizabeth Phelps Ward) that was immensely popular following its publication and was the second best-selling religious novel of the 19th century. The novel is presented like a diary by its main protagonist, Mary Cabot, who mourns the death of her brother Royal. Much of the plot is presented as a dialogue about the afterlife between the two character...

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Editions we hold

Gates Ajar edition · 2019 · Independently Published · 252 pages · 9781098804510
The Gates Ajar paperback · 2019 · Penguin Classics · 176 pages · 9780143133919
The Gates Ajar hardcover · 2018 · Franklin Classics Trade Press · 198 pages · 9780353421066
The Gates Ajar hardcover · 2018 · Franklin Classics Trade Press · 254 pages · 9780343985912
The Gates Ajar hardcover · 2018 · Franklin Classics Trade Press · 254 pages · 9780353050082
The Gates Ajar paperback · 2018 · Franklin Classics Trade Press · 264 pages · 9780344522345
The Gates Ajar hardcover · 2018 · Franklin Classics · 264 pages · 9780342551842
The Gates Ajar hardcover · 2018 · Franklin Classics Trade Press · 258 pages · 9780343659301
The Gates Ajar hardcover · 2014 · Harvard University Press · 200 pages · 9780674863576
Gates Ajar edition · 2013 · General Books LLC · 62 pages · 9781230300177
Gates Ajar edition · 2013 · General Books LLC · 46 pages · 9781230275345
Gates Ajar edition · 2010 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 260 pages · 9781177594240

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