Project Gutenberg 2005-02-04 Public domain in the USA. 154 Benson, Stella 1892 1933 Anderson, J. C. O'Gorman, Mrs. Living Alone Reading ease score: 80.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Living Alone" by Stella Benson is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book explores themes of individuality and the eccentricities of social committees in wartime London, blending elements of magic and whimsicality. The opening introduces a peculiar assembly of women on a committee tasked with war savings, where a chaotic stranger emerges, shaking up their structured lives with her unconventional ideas. At the start of the story, we are introduced to a committee meeting that is disrupted by the entrance of a young woman referred to as the Stranger, who crawls under the table. As she introduces herself and her motivations, the members react with a mix of intrigue and judgment, reflecting the rigid nature of their committee work. The Stranger’s free-spirited nature and her whimsical complaint about the state of her life create a stark contrast to the serious tone of the meeting. Her claims about having "squandered" a large amount of money in a single day reveal an underlying critique of societal expectations during the war. This initial interaction sets the stage for a narrative that blends magic and reality as it delves into the lives of women struggling against societal norms and the search for genuine connections in a world that often values conformity over individuality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fantasy literature World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction London (England) -- Fiction Witches -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 285484 285485 2024-10-06T15:08:53.549236 2023-09-07T05:18:39.569415 text/html text/html 295978 2020-12-19T09:40:49 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 110177 2020-12-19T09:40:49 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 182624 2024-10-06T15:09:01.469210 application/epub+zip 184785 2024-10-06T15:08:56.832227 application/epub+zip 168763 2024-10-06T15:08:55.470217 application/epub+zip 328063 2024-10-06T15:09:05.074261 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 310465 2024-10-06T15:09:00.597225 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 275692 2022-09-07T18:55:16.537543 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 265564 265484 2024-10-06T15:08:52.861270 2023-09-07T05:18:39.061408 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 265476 2020-12-19T09:40:49 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 104033 2020-12-19T09:40:49 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 265468 2020-12-19T09:40:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 104004 2020-12-19T09:40:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22335 2024-10-06T15:09:05.208199 application/rdf+xml 12436 2024-10-06T15:08:56.047234 image/jpeg 3165 2024-10-06T15:08:55.747220 image/jpeg 180170 2024-10-06T15:08:53.574254 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