Project Gutenberg 2009-03-07 Public domain in the USA. 62 Thompson, George 1823 Greenhorn Venus in Boston: A Romance of City Life E-text prepared by Woodie4, Suzanne Shell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Venus in Boston: A Romance of City Life" by George Thompson is a novel written in the mid-19th century. This work explores the social issues and struggles faced by impoverished characters in an urban setting. The story primarily follows a young fruit vendor named Fanny Aubrey, who faces numerous challenges and predicaments due to her circumstance, including a dangerous encounter with a wealthy man intent on exploiting her vulnerability. The opening of the novel introduces the bleak winter environment of Boston, where Fanny, a fourteen-year-old girl, struggles to sell fruit on the street to support her ailing grandfather and younger brother. She embodies innocence and grace amidst her degradation. The narrative quickly escalates as she is inadvertently lured into a dangerous situation with a libertine, Mr. Tickels, who seeks to exploit her purity. Through a chance encounter with Corporal Grimsby, an eccentric but kind-hearted old soldier, Fanny is rescued from this predicament, setting the stage for a critique of societal corruption and the protection of virtue amidst the urban vice of the time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en City and town life -- Fiction Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 382481 382350 2024-09-12T08:00:43.092992 2023-09-12T11:18:00.018163 text/html text/html 386669 2009-03-07T12:15:11 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 196827 2021-01-04T20:40:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 261360 2024-09-12T08:00:49.656984 application/epub+zip 264726 2024-09-12T08:00:44.866013 application/epub+zip 215960 2024-09-12T08:00:43.880995 application/epub+zip 503982 2024-09-12T08:00:53.500978 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 480827 2024-09-12T08:00:48.928961 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 398039 2022-09-13T07:59:48.861816 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 362129 362041 2024-09-12T08:00:42.513992 2023-09-12T11:17:59.480074 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 361816 2021-01-04T20:40:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 142083 2021-01-04T20:40:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18213 2024-09-12T08:00:53.634935 application/rdf+xml 17976 2024-09-12T08:00:44.239001 image/jpeg 4007 2024-09-12T08:00:44.054998 image/jpeg 255554 2024-09-12T08:00:43.129022 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