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 2006-09-19 Public domain in the USA. 73 Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) 1868 1920 Porter, Eleanor Hodgman The Tangled Threads Reading ease score: 82.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. A Delayed Heritage -- The Folly of Wisdom -- Crumbs -- A Four-Footed Faith and a Two -- A Matter of System -- Angelus -- The Apple of Her Eye -- A Mushroom Of Collingsville -- That Angel Boy -- The Lady in Black -- The Saving of Dad -- Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving -- When Mother Fell Ill -- The Glory and the Sacrifice -- The Daltons and the Legacy -- The Letter -- The Indivisible Five -- The Elephant's Board and Keep -- A Patron of Art -- When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus. E-text prepared by Al Haines "The Tangled Threads" by Eleanor H. Porter is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book explores the lives and struggles of various characters, with themes centering on personal sacrifice, dreams, and family dynamics. The opening stories introduce us to characters such as Hester Martin, a mother deeply dedicated to providing her daughter Penelope with opportunities she herself never had, highlighting the emotional and financial challenges of their lives. At the start of the collection, Hester Martin is depicted as a woman who has dedicated her life to her family, reflecting on her past desires for music that remained unfulfilled. After years of saving, she finally plans to give her daughter music lessons, hoping to fulfill the dreams she could not realize. The narrative showcases Hester's hopes, her daughter's initial indifference to music, and the solace Hester finds in playing the piano, illustrating the bond between mother and daughter shaped by love, expectation, and the yearning for a better life through music. This opening segment sets the tone for the stories to come, which promise insights into the intricacies of human relationships and the threads that bind us all. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories Children's stories, American PS Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature 378250 378188 2024-10-08T12:48:17.163801 2023-09-09T04:05:19.883622 text/html text/html 378243 378181 2024-10-08T12:48:17.672810 2023-09-09T04:05:20.071655 text/html text/html 199116 2024-10-08T12:48:26.292762 application/epub+zip 203225 2024-10-08T12:48:20.510779 application/epub+zip 203225 2024-10-08T12:48:18.642808 application/epub+zip 361726 2024-10-08T12:48:30.352733 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 339180 2024-10-08T12:48:25.186764 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 315885 2022-09-09T08:54:34.598263 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 333485 333474 2024-10-08T12:48:16.485810 2023-09-09T04:05:19.566821 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 333349 2006-09-20T06:34:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 128879 2006-09-20T06:34:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 333356 2006-09-20T06:33:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 128877 2006-09-20T06:34:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21399 2024-10-08T12:48:31.246720 application/rdf+xml 11833 2024-10-08T12:48:19.632842 image/jpeg 3091 2024-10-08T12:48:19.178780 image/jpeg 195938 2024-10-08T12:48:17.704803 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia