Project Gutenberg 2005-11-11 Public domain in the USA. 81 Glyn, Elinor 1864 1943 Glyn, Elinor Sutherland The Man and the Moment Reading ease score: 77.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Stacy Brown Thellend, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Man and the Moment" by Elinor Glyn is a work of fiction written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Michael Arranstoun, a wealthy and handsome young man who finds himself entangled in a complicated relationship with Violet Hatfield, whose husband is dying. As the narrative unfolds, Michael's emotional struggles lead him to an unexpected encounter with Sabine Delburg, a seemingly innocent girl seeking freedom from a burdensome engagement. At the start of the story, Michael is depicted as frustrated and cornered by societal expectations and his own desires. After an intense confrontation with his friend Henry Fordyce about his impending marriage to Violet, it becomes clear that Michael desires an escape from this imminent entrapment. Just as he contemplates drastic solutions to regain his freedom, a series of events leads to Sabine's accidental entry into his life. Her presence offers a surprising distraction, and both characters quickly hatch an unconventional plan to marry—rooted in their mutual need for freedom, but with the looming uncertainty of what such a decision entails. The opening section sets the tone for a tale that intertwines themes of love, freedom, and societal constraints, foreshadowing the delightful chaos that is to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 468388 468395 2024-10-07T13:37:13.808698 2023-09-08T04:24:10.370606 text/html text/html 480875 2020-12-12T20:58:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 909352 2020-12-12T20:58:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 983834 2024-10-07T13:37:22.555656 application/epub+zip 989730 2024-10-07T13:37:16.003685 application/epub+zip 245852 2024-10-07T13:37:14.628682 application/epub+zip 1216100 2024-10-07T13:37:27.565601 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1179983 2024-10-07T13:37:21.599704 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 389235 2022-09-08T08:59:11.249229 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 433935 433827 2024-10-07T13:37:12.520724 2023-09-08T04:24:09.374591 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 433620 2020-12-12T20:58:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 164246 2020-12-12T20:58:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 433611 2020-12-12T20:58:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 164138 2020-12-12T20:58:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21241 2024-10-07T13:37:27.704608 application/rdf+xml 13634 2024-10-07T13:37:15.200666 image/jpeg 3957 2024-10-07T13:37:14.910682 image/jpeg 969086 2024-10-07T13:37:13.874703 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