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 2010-08-22 Public domain in the USA. 72 Macaulay, Rose 1881 1958 Macaulay, Emilie Rose, Dame Macaulay, R. (Rose) Macaulay, Dame Rose The Furnace E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) "The Furnace" by Rose Macaulay is a novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative centers around the lives of Tommy and Betty Crevequer, siblings living a bohemian lifestyle in Naples, as they navigate their relationships and interactions with the local populace and visiting tourists, including the Venables family. The book captures the vibrancy of life in Naples while exploring themes of youth, artistic ambition, and social class. The opening of the novel introduces the reader to a lively scene at the harbor of Naples, where a crowd gathers to watch royalty disembark from a steam-yacht. Among the crowd are Tommy and Betty Crevequer, who exhibit a carefree spirit marked by an easy camaraderie and a lack of financial concerns that are often overshadowed by their pursuit of pleasure. The narrative provides insight into their modest, unconventional living arrangements and their relationships with friends and acquaintances, demonstrating their contentment with life's simple joys. This sense of youthful exuberance, along with the tensions that arise from their socioeconomic status, sets the stage for further exploration of their characters and experiences throughout the book. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33482/33482-h/images/cover.jpg en Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 266758 266489 2024-09-14T07:34:25.518197 2023-09-14T12:09:00.413966 text/html text/html 268358 2010-08-21T21:58:55 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 157369 2010-08-21T22:02:09 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 163436 2024-09-14T07:34:29.819228 application/epub+zip 165625 2024-09-14T07:34:26.275222 application/epub+zip 165625 2024-09-14T07:34:25.923226 application/epub+zip 258653 2024-09-14T07:34:32.771158 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 242389 2024-09-14T07:34:29.467253 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 242579 2022-09-15T10:09:34.796501 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 248858 248619 2024-09-14T07:34:25.050268 2023-09-14T12:08:59.972918 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 248461 2010-08-21T21:54:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 95536 2010-08-21T21:54:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 248478 2010-08-21T21:54:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 95509 2010-08-21T21:54:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20226 2024-09-14T07:34:32.904170 application/rdf+xml 19302 2024-09-14T07:34:26.000212 image/jpeg 2866 2024-09-14T07:34:25.961192 image/jpeg 155983 2024-09-14T07:34:25.543217 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia