Project Gutenberg 2011-10-07 Public domain in the USA. 106 Hamilton, Cosmo 1942 The Sins of the Children: A Novel Reading ease score: 81.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Roger Frank, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Sins of the Children: A Novel" by Cosmo Hamilton is a fictional narrative written in the early 20th century. The story focuses on Peter Guthrie, a charming and athletic American Rhodes scholar at Oxford, as he navigates the complexities of university life, friendship, and burgeoning romance while maintaining his ideals of ambition and love for a pure life. Themes of youth, responsibility, and the societal expectations placed upon individuals in academic environments are likely to be central to the story. The opening of the novel introduces Peter and his friend Nicholas Kenyon at St. John's College, where Peter prepares for a visit from his family. Their lively conversation reveals much about Peter's cheerful and optimistic character contrasted with Kenyon's more jaded worldview. Peter's excitement about seeing his family after two years and his budding feelings for a girl named Betty Townsend set the stage for potential romantic entanglements. As the story unfolds, it appears to delve into the relationships between Peter and his family, his friendships in college, and the overarching desire to forge a meaningful life, all while maintaining a sense of youthful sincerity and hope for the future. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 566924 566917 2024-10-16T04:24:16.519538 2023-09-16T10:49:50.255319 text/html text/html 570053 2021-01-08T05:36:36 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 258794 2021-01-08T05:36:36 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 349314 2024-10-16T04:24:26.940432 application/epub+zip 354692 2024-10-16T04:24:20.116477 application/epub+zip 295670 2024-10-16T04:24:18.590489 application/epub+zip 583915 2024-10-16T04:24:32.627408 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 529443 2024-10-16T04:24:25.875456 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 449201 2022-09-17T08:58:25.975682 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 534943 534842 2024-10-16T04:24:15.444553 2023-09-16T10:49:49.259257 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 534743 2021-01-08T05:36:36 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 206772 2021-01-08T05:36:36 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 534743 2021-01-08T05:36:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 206707 2021-01-08T05:36:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21017 2024-10-16T04:24:32.760421 application/rdf+xml 12357 2024-10-16T04:24:19.152467 image/jpeg 3021 2024-10-16T04:24:18.871472 image/jpeg 332782 2024-10-16T04:24:16.576488 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