Project Gutenberg 2004-05-01 Public domain in the USA. 109 Glyn, Elinor 1864 1943 Glyn, Elinor Sutherland The Reason Why Reading ease score: 78.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Suzanne Shell, Shawn Cruze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "The Reason Why" by Elinor Glyn is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around the complex lives of its characters, including the enigmatic financier Francis Markrute, his niece Zara Shulski, and Lord Tancred, a young nobleman. The narrative explores themes of love, marriage, social status, and the intricacies of human relationships against a backdrop of wealth and aristocracy. At the start of the novel, readers are introduced to Francis Markrute, a wealthy and influential man in London society, who discusses matters of life and finances with Lord Tancred. The dialogue reveals Tancred’s financial troubles and Markrute’s proposition to arrange a marriage between Tancred and his niece, the widow Zara, who is portrayed as a strikingly beautiful yet emotionally complex character. The tension builds as Zara grapples with her past and her uncle’s controlling nature, setting up a narrative filled with emotional stakes and societal expectations. As the opening unfolds, readers are drawn into the lives of these characters, each wrestling with their own desires and the roles they play in a game of love and duty. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 639690 634094 2024-10-05T18:02:03.690569 2023-10-06T05:31:27.896603 text/html text/html 635225 2020-12-14T22:52:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 601941 2020-12-14T22:52:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 690512 2024-10-05T18:02:14.175528 application/epub+zip 702489 2024-10-05T18:02:06.333585 application/epub+zip 318720 2024-10-05T18:02:04.522565 application/epub+zip 925994 2024-10-05T18:02:20.401478 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 880652 2024-10-05T18:02:13.209537 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 472266 2022-09-06T20:48:48.622240 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 605316 605240 2024-10-05T18:02:02.109595 2023-10-06T05:31:26.449605 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 606602 2020-12-14T22:52:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 229920 2020-12-14T22:52:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 606593 2020-12-14T22:52:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 229813 2020-12-14T22:52:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21067 2024-10-05T18:02:20.570480 application/rdf+xml 10143 2024-10-05T18:02:05.356542 image/jpeg 2787 2024-10-05T18:02:05.005554 image/jpeg 661135 2024-10-05T18:02:03.758560 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia