Project Gutenberg 2012-05-19 Public domain in the USA. 79 Boothby, Guy 1867 1905 Boothby, Guy Newell The Marriage of Esther Produced by Cathy Maxam and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Marriage of Esther" by Guy Boothby is a novel written in the late 19th century. The book follows the journey of Cuthbert Ellison, a man who has fallen from grace and is struggling for redemption, as he navigates his complicated relationship with Esther McCartney, a woman of strength and mystery, set against the backdrop of Thursday Island. At the start of the story, readers are introduced to Ellison and his companion Silas Murkard as they arrive at Thursday Island, both down on their luck. Their unpopularity is quickly established when Murkard, intoxicated, incites a brawl at a local bar, leading to Ellison's defense of him against a fighter named Paddy the Lasher. After a fierce fight, Ellison earns the respect of the locals but is haunted by his past failures and the degradation he has suffered. The narrative hints at Ellison's internal struggles, including his desire for redemption, and lays the foundation for his encounter with Esther, a character who represents hope and the potential for a new beginning in his tumultuous life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/39731/39731-h/images/icover.jpg en Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 400094 400104 2024-09-16T15:52:16.208161 2023-09-17T10:09:26.263698 text/html text/html 405955 2012-05-18T19:06:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 231292 2012-05-18T19:06:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 247371 2024-09-16T15:52:22.987165 application/epub+zip 251828 2024-09-16T15:52:17.329166 application/epub+zip 224949 2024-09-16T15:52:16.743153 application/epub+zip 377927 2024-09-16T15:52:27.226106 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 349929 2024-09-16T15:52:22.339159 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 323542 2022-09-18T08:05:11.857035 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 354151 353963 2024-09-16T15:52:15.178150 2023-09-17T10:09:25.136701 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 353960 2012-05-18T19:06:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 135606 2012-05-18T19:06:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 353954 2012-05-18T19:06:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 135563 2012-05-18T19:06:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20043 2024-09-16T15:52:27.363088 application/rdf+xml 18274 2024-09-16T15:52:16.853164 image/jpeg 2957 2024-09-16T15:52:16.798153 image/jpeg 230830 2024-09-16T15:52:16.250182 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