Project Gutenberg 2010-06-24 Public domain in the USA. 92 Sawyer, Ruth 1880 1970 Durand, Lucinda Balmer, Clinton 1879 1967 Balmer, Thomas Clinton Leerie Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. "Leerie" by Ruth Sawyer is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Peter Brooks, a man grappling with a debilitating fear of sleep and his journey in a sanitarium, where he encounters a vibrant nurse named Sheila O'Leary, also known as Leerie. As their paths intertwine, the novel explores themes of mental health, healing, and the human connection in the face of vulnerability. At the start of the book, we meet Peter, who feels abandoned by society due to his declining health and emotional struggles. After a series of failed attempts to regain control over his life, he is sent to a sanitarium for treatment. Upon arriving, he meets Sheila O'Leary, a nurse with a luminous presence, who brings warmth and hope into his despondent world. The opening sets up Peter's complex relationship with his fears, highlighted by his fixation on a girl he only glimpsed once in an omnibus, which hints at a deeper emotional exploration as the story unfolds. The dynamics of patient and caregiver, the struggle with internal demons, and the healing power of human connection form the core of this poignant narrative. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32959/32959-h/images/cover.jpg file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/32959/32959-h/images/cover.jpg en World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction Love stories Nurses -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 400741 400739 2024-09-14T05:13:57.617563 2023-09-14T10:04:06.741504 text/html text/html 423624 2021-01-06T19:37:09 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 484882 2021-01-06T19:37:09 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 496587 2024-09-14T05:14:03.613549 application/epub+zip 498127 2024-09-14T05:13:58.704574 application/epub+zip 201514 2024-09-14T05:13:58.037554 application/epub+zip 613200 2024-09-14T05:14:07.504545 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 574928 2024-09-14T05:14:03.085523 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 279234 2022-09-15T07:10:30.243027 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356275 356188 2024-09-14T05:13:56.878545 2023-09-14T10:04:06.033511 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 356079 2021-01-06T19:37:09 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 139901 2021-01-06T19:37:09 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 356071 2021-01-06T19:37:09 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 139837 2021-01-06T19:37:09 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21345 2024-09-14T05:14:07.656522 application/rdf+xml 6519 2024-09-14T05:13:58.122554 image/jpeg 1495 2024-09-14T05:13:58.081531 image/jpeg 512005 2024-09-14T05:13:57.669552 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