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 Project Gutenberg 2005-11-14 Public domain in the USA. 45 Tupper, Martin Farquhar 1810 1889 Tupper, Martin F. (Martin Farquhar) Tupper, M. F. (Martin Farquhar) The Crock of Gold: A Rural Novel Reading ease score: 68.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) "The Crock of Gold: A Rural Novel" by Martin Farquhar Tupper is a fictional work written in the mid-19th century. The narrative centers around Roger Acton, a laborer dealing with the harsh realities of poverty, discontent, and the lure of wealth in a rural setting. Tupper explores themes of socio-economic disparity, moral struggle, and the impact of greed on the human spirit, presenting a poignant portrayal of the rural working class. The opening of the novel introduces Roger Acton, who awakens before dawn in bleak and cold conditions, emphasizing his toil as a laborer and the discontent that has begun to fester within him. As he prepares for a day of hard work, we learn about his life and the burdens he carries, including the losses he has endured and the hardships that plague his family. With his daughter Grace often reading him verses from the Bible to uplift his spirits, Roger's internal conflict escalates as he fantasizes about a "crock of gold." His discontent grows ever deeper as challenges mount, prompting him to contemplate the morality of his desires and the nature of his existence within a society that seems to favor the wealthy. Thus, the stage is set for a narrative that grapples with the complexities of human experience against the backdrop of rural life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 401654 401479 2024-10-07T13:40:36.517642 2023-09-08T04:26:44.021882 text/html text/html 407304 2020-12-12T21:52:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 160565 2020-12-12T21:52:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 245923 2024-10-07T13:40:45.380611 application/epub+zip 248602 2024-10-07T13:40:39.884620 application/epub+zip 231075 2024-10-07T13:40:38.462650 application/epub+zip 449210 2024-10-07T13:40:49.537587 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 424304 2024-10-07T13:40:44.507630 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 357947 2022-09-08T09:03:12.046172 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 369427 369303 2024-10-07T13:40:35.787688 2023-09-08T04:26:43.412879 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 369090 2020-12-12T21:52:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 152685 2020-12-12T21:52:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 369105 2020-12-12T21:52:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 152660 2020-12-12T21:52:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21397 2024-10-07T13:40:49.673572 application/rdf+xml 16133 2024-10-07T13:40:39.034640 image/jpeg 3977 2024-10-07T13:40:38.747642 image/jpeg 234641 2024-10-07T13:40:36.553676 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia