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 2010-01-23 Public domain in the USA. 96 Conscience, Hendrik 1812 1883 Conscience, Henryk Conscience, Henri Siska van Roosemael Produced by Branko Collin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Siska van Roosemael" by Hendrik Conscience is a novel written in the early 20th century." The story follows Siska, the young daughter of the traditional shopkeeper Jan Van Roosemael, who finds herself caught between her modest upbringing and the alluring yet perilous world of modern society, as her father struggles to uphold his values against the backdrop of changing times. With themes exploring social class, the tension between tradition and modernity, and the pursuit of identity, the novel paints a rich picture of familial bonds and societal expectations. "The opening of the novel introduces the Van Roosemael family, particularly Siska, a fifteen-year-old girl who possesses beauty and innocence shaped by her family's humble, hardworking values." Jan Van Roosemael operates a long-established grocery store in Antwerp, but their way of life is threatened by the changing societal norms represented by their neighbor, the shoemaker Spinael, who adopts a more flamboyant, French-inspired lifestyle. Their friendship is strained as Spinael's choices lead him into debt and moral decay, while Siska faces pressure to conform to the new, fashionable ways exemplified by Spinael's daughter, Hortense. As Siska's mother wishes for her to attend a French pension, the tone of the narrative foreshadows the conflict between preserving their traditional values and succumbing to the seductive allure of modernity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) nl Domestic fiction Families -- Fiction PT Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 137504 137512 2024-09-13T08:08:07.427826 2023-09-13T12:46:40.789586 text/html text/html 137231 2010-01-23T04:05:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 3278194 2010-01-23T04:09:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 3256152 2024-09-13T08:08:15.017267 application/epub+zip 3254430 2024-09-13T08:08:10.206776 application/epub+zip 104560 2024-09-13T08:08:08.106792 application/epub+zip 4466887 2024-09-13T08:08:17.829398 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4452073 2024-09-13T08:08:13.050835 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 223166 2022-09-14T09:47:51.397147 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 117331 117246 2024-09-13T08:08:06.971790 2023-09-13T12:46:40.290562 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 116852 2010-01-23T04:05:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 45947 2010-01-23T04:09:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 18857 2024-09-13T08:08:17.960285 application/rdf+xml 15450 2024-09-13T08:08:08.455753 image/jpeg 3853 2024-09-13T08:08:08.280812 image/jpeg 3377831 2024-09-13T08:08:07.502796 application/octet-stream application/zip nl.wikipedia en.wikipedia