Project Gutenberg 2007-09-21 Public domain in the USA. 57 Bellamy, Edward 1850 1898 Potts's Painless Cure 1898 Produced by David Widger "Potts's Painless Cure" by Edward Bellamy is a novel written during the late 19th century. The story is set in a college environment and explores themes of love, social interaction, and the complexities of personal relationships. It centers around the protagonist, George Hunt, and his unconventional approach to ending a romantic relationship with Annie, a girl he feels he cannot marry. In the narrative, George Hunt grapples with his feelings for Annie, a kind and earnest girl who has fallen deeply in love with him. Despite initially enjoying her affection, he realizes he does not want to marry and devises a plan to dissuade her love by pretending to be insipid and arrogant. Conducting this "experiment," he engages in increasingly absurd behavior, hoping to make himself unattractive to her. However, as he distances himself from her affection through calculated insincerity, he discovers his own feelings have changed, leading to a climax where his prior schemes culminate in an unexpected revelation of love. Ultimately, his deceptive actions backfire, and he loses Annie, who confronts him angrily, forcing him to confront the depth of his feelings and the impact of his misguided attempts to "cure" her affection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 81704 81713 2024-09-10T04:50:25.581751 2023-09-10T08:22:40.695557 text/html text/html 79345 2021-01-26T02:00:25 text/html; charset=utf-8 29013 2021-01-26T02:00:25 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 78875 2024-09-10T04:50:28.883721 application/epub+zip 77922 2024-09-10T04:50:26.875719 application/epub+zip 77923 2024-09-10T04:50:26.040738 application/epub+zip 182788 2024-09-10T04:50:30.450728 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 175572 2024-09-10T04:50:28.396729 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 178698 2022-09-10T14:48:28.089921 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 68833 2024-09-10T04:50:25.367774 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 69319 2018-03-08T06:18:06 text/plain; charset=utf-8 27390 2018-03-19T05:49:28 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 68768 2007-09-21T16:41:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 27275 2007-09-21T16:41:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19737 2024-09-10T04:50:30.587714 application/rdf+xml 14614 2024-09-10T04:50:26.376750 image/jpeg 3710 2024-09-10T04:50:26.205725 image/jpeg 80555 2024-09-10T04:50:25.589767 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