Project Gutenberg 2009-06-19 Public domain in the USA. 102 Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) 1886 1921 Ingram, Eleanor Marie Frederick, Edmund 1870 1949 Frederick, E. (Edmund) Stuart, Bertha 1869 1953 The Flying Mercury Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Suzanne Shell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Flying Mercury" by Eleanor M. Ingram is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Emily Ffrench and her relationships with her cousin Dick, a carefree young man struggling to find his place in the family business, and David Lestrange, a talented racing driver with an uncertain connection to the Ffrench legacy. The plot intricately weaves themes of love, duty, and the quest for identity within the backdrop of the early automotive racing scene. At the start of the narrative, we are introduced to a tense encounter on a remote Long Island road, where Emily, lost while traveling with her cousin, meets David Lestrange. Their interaction captures both her vulnerability and his quiet confidence as he assists her. The initial chapters reveal a complex family dynamic, highlighting Emily's uncle Ethan's expectations for her to marry someone who can uphold the family's name, as well as Dick's aimless pursuits that pressure Emily into contemplating her own future. The early exchanges between characters hint at romantic possibilities, especially between Emily and Lestrange, while underlying tensions regarding class, ambition, and familial obligation begin to unfold. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Automobile racing -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Sports/Hobbies/Motoring Browsing: Fiction 180345 180354 2024-09-12T13:12:32.009673 2023-09-13T05:33:20.308785 text/html text/html 181287 2021-01-05T05:44:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 385560 2021-01-05T05:44:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 418297 2024-09-12T13:12:35.708636 application/epub+zip 419282 2024-09-12T13:12:32.615617 application/epub+zip 143146 2024-09-12T13:12:32.299633 application/epub+zip 491894 2024-09-12T13:12:38.224621 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 468454 2024-09-12T13:12:35.371668 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 193628 2022-09-13T13:52:25.578312 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 157133 157026 2024-09-12T13:12:31.496664 2023-09-13T05:33:19.847787 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 157029 2021-01-05T05:44:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 61656 2021-01-05T05:44:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 157020 2021-01-05T05:44:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 61637 2021-01-05T05:44:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20560 2024-09-12T13:12:38.461621 application/rdf+xml 24782 2024-09-12T13:12:32.383652 image/jpeg 3662 2024-09-12T13:12:32.341616 image/jpeg 393236 2024-09-12T13:12:32.052669 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