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Title: The Clarion
Note: Reading ease score: 76.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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Summary: "The Clarion" by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story dives into the world of quackery and dubious medical practices through characters like Professor Andrew Leon Certain, a traveling salesman pushing his miracle cure, and Dr. Harrington Surtaine, an heir to a successful patent medicine business. The narrative likely explores themes of morality, ethics in medicine, and the consequences of deception in pursuit of profit. The opening of the novel introduces a public gathering where Professor Certain is captivating a crowd with his impassioned speech about a miraculous remedy he claims can cure all ailments. As he tries to sell his "Vitalizing Mixture," a mix of charisma and dubious claims, the scene intensifies with the arrival of a concerned stranger who challenges the professor's credibility. Tension rises dramatically when a distraught man accuses the professor of causing the death of his wife due to the same remedy. In a chaotic moment, an attempt on the professor's life unfolds, revealing a critical early conflict that hints at deeper themes of exploitation and human suffering, and sets the stage for the complex interactions between various characters as the plot unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958
Illustrator: Stevens, William Dodge, 1870-1942
EBook No.: 16447
Published: Aug 5, 2005
Downloads: 93
Language: English
Subject: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subject: Newspapers -- Fiction
Subject: Slums -- Fiction
Subject: Reporters and reporting -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: The Clarion
Note: Reading ease score: 76.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Credits:
Produced by Robert Shimmin, Robert Ledger and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at https:
//www.pgdp.net
Summary: "The Clarion" by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story dives into the world of quackery and dubious medical practices through characters like Professor Andrew Leon Certain, a traveling salesman pushing his miracle cure, and Dr. Harrington Surtaine, an heir to a successful patent medicine business. The narrative likely explores themes of morality, ethics in medicine, and the consequences of deception in pursuit of profit. The opening of the novel introduces a public gathering where Professor Certain is captivating a crowd with his impassioned speech about a miraculous remedy he claims can cure all ailments. As he tries to sell his "Vitalizing Mixture," a mix of charisma and dubious claims, the scene intensifies with the arrival of a concerned stranger who challenges the professor's credibility. Tension rises dramatically when a distraught man accuses the professor of causing the death of his wife due to the same remedy. In a chaotic moment, an attempt on the professor's life unfolds, revealing a critical early conflict that hints at deeper themes of exploitation and human suffering, and sets the stage for the complex interactions between various characters as the plot unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958
Illustrator: Stevens, William Dodge, 1870-1942
EBook No.: 16447
Published: Aug 5, 2005
Downloads: 93
Language: English
Subject: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subject: Newspapers -- Fiction
Subject: Slums -- Fiction
Subject: Reporters and reporting -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.