Project Gutenberg 2006-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 124 White, Grace Miller 1869 1957 Miller, Mary Esther From the Valley of the Missing Reading ease score: 83.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "From the Valley of the Missing" by Grace Miller White is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story opens with a bleak and oppressive atmosphere, introducing readers to characters mired in hardship and desperation. The main characters include Scraggy Peterson, a frail young mother caught in a toxic relationship with the brutal Lem Crabbe, and her child, whose fate hangs precariously amidst his parent's turmoil. The opening of the book sets a grim tone, as it depicts a late October day on a scow moving along a river. Scraggy's life is defined by fear and subjugation under the violent Lem, while her love for her child burns fiercely, offering her any semblance of hope. As tensions escalate, Lem makes it clear that he wishes to rid himself of both Scraggy and the child, hinting at violent repercussions. The situation culminates in an urgent moment where Scraggy pleads with an unknown woman onboard a passing yacht to save her child from a fate she cannot bear to endure. This emotionally charged beginning lays the groundwork for a story steeped in themes of survival, maternal love, and the undercurrents of criminality, as the lives of these characters intertwine with desires for escape and the painful legacies of their past. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Social classes -- Fiction New York (State) -- Fiction Kidnapping -- Fiction PS Text Movie Books Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 611405 611337 2024-10-08T06:16:34.522414 2023-09-08T08:16:03.279630 text/html text/html 621607 2006-04-01T08:14:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1653492 2006-04-01T08:14:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1642379 2024-10-08T06:16:48.150745 application/epub+zip 1650144 2024-10-08T06:16:38.691798 application/epub+zip 303640 2024-10-08T06:16:36.801801 application/epub+zip 1897261 2024-10-08T06:16:54.402751 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1856083 2024-10-08T06:16:46.383760 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 497921 2022-09-08T14:37:52.712851 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 557483 557400 2024-10-08T06:16:31.839326 2023-09-08T08:16:01.026590 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 557439 2006-04-01T08:14:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 210092 2006-04-01T08:14:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 557429 2006-04-01T08:14:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 210058 2006-04-01T08:14:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22295 2024-10-08T06:16:54.544819 application/rdf+xml 13225 2024-10-08T06:16:37.397800 image/jpeg 3222 2024-10-08T06:16:37.097804 image/jpeg 1888785 2024-10-08T06:16:34.632319 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