Project Gutenberg 2010-11-24 Public domain in the USA. 75 Broughton, Rhoda 1840 1920 Alas! A Novel Produced by Meredith Bach, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "Alas! A Novel" by Rhoda Broughton is a work of fiction written in the late 19th century. The narrative introduces the readers to James Burgoyne, who is drawn into a complicated social situation involving his college friend and an unexpected encounter with figures from his past, particularly a woman named Elizabeth Le Marchant. The story seems to explore themes of memory, nostalgia, and the emotional challenges of rekindling connections after years apart. The opening of the novel sets the stage on a wet night in Oxford, where Burgoyne reluctantly attends an event for the "Oxford Women's Provident Association" at the request of his friend. While his friend reads aloud from a Charles Dickens work, Burgoyne's mind drifts to his own past, specifically a mysterious woman whose face he recognizes but whose identity eludes him. As the evening unfolds, the reader senses Burgoyne's internal struggles with his past relationships, the melancholy of lost years, and the anticipation of what may come next when he finally identifies Elizabeth. The narrative expertly blends elements of comedy and pathos, offering a glimpse of the character's emotional depth and setting the tone for the relationships that will evolve throughout the story. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en English fiction -- Welsh authors PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 914431 914429 2024-09-14T12:00:03.275229 2023-09-15T06:58:10.555549 text/html text/html 926025 2010-11-24T19:55:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 412007 2010-11-24T19:55:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 471370 2024-09-14T12:00:15.243171 application/epub+zip 488383 2024-09-14T12:00:05.410323 application/epub+zip 426043 2024-09-14T12:00:04.212225 application/epub+zip 794009 2024-09-14T12:00:23.025115 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 755506 2024-09-14T12:00:14.337225 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 693419 2022-09-15T15:39:16.355808 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 874580 874362 2024-09-14T12:00:01.010325 2023-09-15T06:58:08.553526 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 874229 2010-11-24T19:55:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 343639 2010-11-24T19:55:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 874223 2010-11-24T19:55:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 343367 2010-11-24T19:55:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19927 2024-09-14T12:00:23.478128 application/rdf+xml 12532 2024-09-14T12:00:04.583232 image/jpeg 3470 2024-09-14T12:00:04.396258 image/jpeg 462293 2024-09-14T12:00:03.360214 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