Project Gutenberg 2006-07-04 Public domain in the USA. 79 Daviess, Maria Thompson 1872 1924 King, W. B. The Heart's Kingdom Reading ease score: 73.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. E-text prepared by Kathryn Lybarger, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Heart's Kingdom" by Maria Thompson Daviess is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around Charlotte Powers, a strong-willed woman struggling with her identity and societal expectations. As Charlotte navigates her relationships, particularly with Nickols Powers and the Reverend Gregory Goodloe, the narrative delves into themes of love, religion, and the tensions of personal freedom versus social obligation. At the start of the novel, Charlotte returns home from a winter spent in New York, filled with inner turmoil. She is confronted by her father, who has constructed a chapel in her garden, representing an intrusion of religious sentiment into her life. Through her spirited dialogues, particularly with Nickols, who desires a romantic relationship with her, and the enigmatic Goodloe, Charlotte grapples with her fear of religion and an awakening sense of self. The chapter sets the stage for her complex relationships and foreshadows an evolving struggle between modernity and tradition as she engages with the men who challenge her views and beliefs. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Methodist Church -- Clergy -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Religious aspects -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal Browsing: Fiction 455172 455018 2024-10-08T09:39:24.365946 2023-09-08T10:56:13.828166 text/html text/html 461591 2006-07-04T14:14:23 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 293099 2021-01-01T12:41:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 382857 2024-10-08T09:39:34.004889 application/epub+zip 385004 2024-10-08T09:39:27.764958 application/epub+zip 257373 2024-10-08T09:39:26.290950 application/epub+zip 576096 2024-10-08T09:39:38.843871 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 534567 2024-10-08T09:39:32.871931 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385888 2022-09-09T05:38:47.706386 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 415730 415628 2024-10-08T09:39:23.393087 2023-09-08T10:56:13.019134 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 415459 2021-01-01T12:41:05 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 160271 2021-01-01T12:41:05 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 415466 2021-01-01T12:41:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 160266 2021-01-01T12:41:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21844 2024-10-08T09:39:38.985864 application/rdf+xml 12925 2024-10-08T09:39:26.850947 image/jpeg 3384 2024-10-08T09:39:26.568942 image/jpeg 364659 2024-10-08T09:39:24.410990 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