Project Gutenberg 2005-10-09 Public domain in the USA. 84 Moodie, Susanna 1803 1885 Moodie, Susannah Strickland Strickland, S. (Susanna) Strickland, Susannah Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers Reading ease score: 78.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Early Canadiana Online, Robert Cicconetti, Stacy Brown Thellend and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers" by Susanna Moodie is a novel written in the early 19th century. It explores themes of avarice, familial rivalry, and the consequences of wealth in the lives of its central characters, primarily focusing on the contrasting lives of the twin brothers, Mark and Algernon Hurdlestone. The narrative delves into Mark's character as a miser driven by greed and jealousy, ultimately leading to a tragic love story involving Elinor Wildegrave and the destructive nature of their intertwined fates. At the start of the novel, readers are introduced to Mark Hurdlestone, an eccentric and notorious miser whose life revolves around accumulating wealth. Described as having a harsh and sullen demeanor, Mark is widely regarded with a mix of curiosity and disdain by those around him. The opening chapters also reveal the contrasting character of his younger twin brother, Algernon, who is more personable and light-hearted but ultimately faces his own struggles as he pursues love amidst family discord and social expectations. The tension between the brothers escalates as their lives become more entangled with Elinor, a beautiful but impoverished young woman, setting the stage for tragedy influenced by pride, passion, and revenge. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 646217 646218 2024-10-07T12:38:01.841850 2023-09-08T03:38:26.495905 text/html text/html 655305 2020-12-12T16:54:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 243193 2020-12-12T16:54:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 323074 2024-10-07T12:38:13.808817 application/epub+zip 333765 2024-10-07T12:38:05.654846 application/epub+zip 312192 2024-10-07T12:38:04.152868 application/epub+zip 616414 2024-10-07T12:38:19.686796 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 586979 2024-10-07T12:38:12.697799 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 556132 2022-09-08T07:51:01.452673 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 603103 602958 2024-10-07T12:38:00.090868 2023-09-08T03:38:25.006876 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 602941 2020-12-12T16:54:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 232658 2020-12-12T16:54:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 602932 2020-12-12T16:54:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 232636 2020-12-12T16:54:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21402 2024-10-07T12:38:19.837756 application/rdf+xml 16472 2024-10-07T12:38:04.734830 image/jpeg 3838 2024-10-07T12:38:04.441836 image/jpeg 317051 2024-10-07T12:38:01.896864 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