Project Gutenberg 2011-11-18 Public domain in the USA. 73 Marsh, Richard 1857 1915 Heldman, Richard Bernard Heldmann, Bernard A Duel Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books "A Duel" by Richard Marsh is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story begins with Isabel discovering the harsh realities of her marriage to Gregory Lamb shortly after their honeymoon, revealing deep financial struggles and the revelations about her husband’s deceit. As tensions rise, Isabel's desperation leads her to make impulsive decisions, ultimately finding herself in an unexpected marriage with a dying man named Cuthbert Grahame, who she believed would be dead shortly after their union. The opening of the book finds Isabel grappling with the shattering news from her husband’s mother, revealing their dire financial circumstances and prompting her to seek freedom from an unfulfilling marriage. In a moment of impulsivity, she steals money from her landlady and attempts to leave but injures her ankle, ultimately being rescued by a doctor. This leads her to Cuthbert Grahame’s bedside, where she is presented with an outrageous proposal to marry him in order to secure a financial inheritance, which she reluctantly accepts. This initial twist sets the stage for a story that explores themes of desperation, marriage, and cunning survival as Isabel navigates her complex new reality of being a wife to an ailing man. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Bigamy -- Fiction Murder -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 604166 596358 2024-09-16T06:29:47.209689 2023-09-16T12:42:35.354885 text/html text/html 608452 2021-01-08T07:40:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 203393 2021-01-08T07:40:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 253861 2024-09-16T06:29:56.483653 application/epub+zip 264377 2024-09-16T06:29:49.272693 application/epub+zip 264377 2024-09-16T06:29:48.122680 application/epub+zip 454392 2024-09-16T06:30:01.652728 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 415323 2024-09-16T06:29:55.379696 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 415451 2022-09-17T11:39:47.740060 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 525683 525633 2024-09-16T06:29:45.227714 2023-09-16T12:42:33.589874 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 525552 2021-01-08T07:40:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 196221 2021-01-08T07:40:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 525545 2021-01-08T07:40:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 196178 2021-01-08T07:40:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20707 2024-09-16T06:30:01.801600 application/rdf+xml 8211 2024-09-16T06:29:48.503683 image/jpeg 2244 2024-09-16T06:29:48.304669 image/jpeg 243257 2024-09-16T06:29:47.259686 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