Project Gutenberg 2006-03-16 Public domain in the USA. 64 Aldrich, Mildred 1853 1928 16023086 Told in a French Garden August, 1914 Reading ease score: 80.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. Introduction -- I. The Youngster's Story -- II. The Trained Nurse's Story -- III. The Critic's Story -- IV. The Doctor's Story V. The Sculptor's Story -- VI. The Divorcée's Story -- VII. The Lawyer's Story -- VIII. The Journalist's Story -- IX. The Violinist's Story -- X. Epilogue. Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Told in a French Garden" by Mildred Aldrich is a collection of interconnected stories written in the early 20th century. The narrative unfolds in a picturesque French garden, where a diverse gathering of friends reunites amid the backdrop of World War I. Each chapter invites a different character to share their unique tale, offering reflections on life, love, and the complexities of human experience during tumultuous times. At the start of the book, the author introduces a group of old acquaintances, each with their own backgrounds and experts in various fields, who find themselves spending the summer in a French garden in July 1914, just before the outbreak of war. As they bask in the beauty of their surroundings, the characters engage in conversations that reveal their personal lives and philosophies, setting the stage for an upcoming series of storytelling sessions. The reader is drawn into their dynamic as they recount tales from their pasts, all while the looming threat of war begins to cast a shadow over their idyllic summer retreat. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories PS Text World War I Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 336030 336029 2024-10-08T05:53:25.566714 2023-09-08T07:57:56.433602 text/html text/html 342042 2006-03-16T15:25:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 257179 2006-03-16T15:25:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 337438 2024-10-08T05:53:33.161639 application/epub+zip 338194 2024-10-08T05:53:27.760653 application/epub+zip 202165 2024-10-08T05:53:26.413664 application/epub+zip 507687 2024-10-08T05:53:37.075594 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 477167 2024-10-08T05:53:32.196660 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306301 2022-09-08T14:10:13.354859 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 302930 302821 2024-10-08T05:53:24.540678 2023-09-08T07:57:55.574592 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 302750 2006-03-16T15:25:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 116955 2006-03-16T15:25:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 302743 2006-03-16T15:25:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 116870 2006-03-16T15:25:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21893 2024-10-08T05:53:37.214596 application/rdf+xml 12506 2024-10-08T05:53:26.972652 image/jpeg 3647 2024-10-08T05:53:26.691694 image/jpeg 320113 2024-10-08T05:53:25.603674 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