Project Gutenberg 2008-01-29 Public domain in the USA. 88 Child, Richard Washburn 1881 1935 Cue, Harold James 1887 1961 The blue wall : $b A story of strangeness and struggle Reading ease score: 80.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) "The Blue Wall" by Richard Washburn Child is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the mysterious illness affecting a young girl named Virginia Marbury and the intriguing events that unfold around her family and their enigmatic neighbors, the Estabrooks. The narrative hints at themes of struggle against the unknown and the impact of unseen connections, as the protagonist, a surgeon, grapples with the strangeness surrounding the illness and the peculiar blue wall that symbolizes both barriers and unknown possibilities. The opening of the novel establishes a sense of urgency and mystery as the narrator, a surgeon, reflects on his responsibility toward his patient, Virginia, who suffers from meningitis. The surgeon's introspection leads him to wonder about the family's circumstances and the implications of the adjacent house, owned by the Estabrooks. Virginia's peculiar connection to the blue wall – her apparent awareness of something beyond it – sets the stage for the unfolding investigation. As the surgeon seeks answers about Virginia's condition, he discovers a mingling of personal stakes and deeper questions that bind both families. The beginning effectively creates suspense and lays the groundwork for the intricate relationships and secrets that will emerge throughout the novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Physicians -- Fiction Psychological fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Fiction 528512 528170 2024-10-10T12:44:01.742911 2023-09-11T04:59:13.258854 text/html text/html 552292 2008-01-29T10:46:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 301614 2021-01-03T06:46:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 385430 2024-10-10T12:44:11.830867 application/epub+zip 390654 2024-10-10T12:44:04.336095 application/epub+zip 280746 2024-10-10T12:44:02.807913 application/epub+zip 579343 2024-10-10T12:44:17.557831 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 534772 2024-10-10T12:44:10.694890 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 412596 2022-09-11T10:05:23.218259 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 474779 474680 2024-10-10T12:44:00.259927 2023-09-11T04:59:12.008860 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 474575 2021-01-03T06:46:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 181866 2021-01-03T06:46:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 474585 2021-01-03T06:46:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 181850 2021-01-03T06:46:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21578 2024-10-10T12:44:17.937828 application/rdf+xml 9947 2024-10-10T12:44:03.392899 image/jpeg 2797 2024-10-10T12:44:03.099901 image/jpeg 359360 2024-10-10T12:44:01.799916 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