Project Gutenberg 2005-08-05 Public domain in the USA. 98 Adams, Samuel Hopkins 1871 1958 Fabian, Warner Stevens, William Dodge 1870 1942 Stevens, W. D. (William Dodge) The Clarion Reading ease score: 76.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Robert Shimmin, Robert Ledger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "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.) en Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Newspapers -- Fiction Slums -- Fiction Reporters and reporting -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Journalism/Media/Writing Browsing: Fiction 771009 771005 2024-10-07T10:29:58.659419 2023-09-07T11:01:11.233112 text/html text/html 821361 2020-12-12T07:46:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 781881 2020-12-12T07:46:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 909926 2024-10-07T10:30:12.033318 application/epub+zip 921217 2024-10-07T10:30:01.759352 application/epub+zip 372735 2024-10-07T10:29:59.752411 application/epub+zip 1398364 2024-10-07T10:30:20.375265 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1363624 2024-10-07T10:30:10.820338 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 593609 2022-09-08T05:27:33.717213 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 720424 720322 2024-10-07T10:29:54.895386 2023-09-07T11:01:08.299091 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 720097 2020-12-12T07:46:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 285804 2020-12-12T07:46:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 720100 2020-12-12T07:46:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 285697 2020-12-12T07:46:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22827 2024-10-07T10:30:20.859235 application/rdf+xml 11603 2024-10-07T10:30:00.698346 image/jpeg 3219 2024-10-07T10:30:00.267341 image/jpeg 846193 2024-10-07T10:29:58.737353 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