Project Gutenberg 2012-08-26 Public domain in the USA. 70 Hope, Anthony 1863 1933 Hawkins, Anthony Hope The God in the Car: A Novel Produced by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The God in the Car: A Novel" by Anthony Hope is a fictional work written in the late 19th century. The story appears to delve into the lives of several socialites navigating relationships and business affairs, with a central character named Willie Ruston who is involved in a new venture concerning the African territory of Omofaga. The narrative seems to oscillate between personal dynamics and the challenging financial schemes of that era, including the challenges posed by competing interests. The opening of the novel introduces a lively social gathering where Miss Ferrars is seeking to identify a man of intrigue, Foster Belford, while exchanging witty banter with Lord Semingham. Social hierarchies and the dynamics of friendship and flirtation are caricatured through the conversations, particularly spotlighting the character of Mrs. Dennison, who is depicted as thoughtful and somewhat troubled by her past connections, especially with Ruston. As the characters engage in discussions about business and memories, the tone hints at underlying tensions tying their personal lives to the larger economic ambitions surrounding Ruston’s endeavors in Omofaga, setting the stage for further clashes between social expectation and personal ambition. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/40583/40583-h/images/cover.jpg en England -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Finance -- Fiction Love -- Fiction Ambition -- Fiction Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 513733 513742 2024-09-17T07:00:22.545470 2023-09-17T15:08:56.524341 text/html text/html 533046 2012-08-26T08:56:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 481914 2012-08-26T08:56:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 321786 2024-09-17T07:00:30.276407 application/epub+zip 326357 2024-09-17T07:00:23.724489 application/epub+zip 255633 2024-09-17T07:00:23.107433 application/epub+zip 492084 2024-09-17T07:00:35.360381 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 444271 2024-09-17T07:00:29.559477 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 367228 2022-09-18T14:56:23.537507 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 426119 425893 2024-09-17T07:00:20.816462 2023-09-17T15:08:54.818311 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 425912 2012-08-26T08:56:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 160430 2012-08-26T08:56:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 425904 2012-08-26T08:56:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 160393 2012-08-26T08:56:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21724 2024-09-17T07:00:35.505376 application/rdf+xml 23004 2024-09-17T07:00:23.217453 image/jpeg 2504 2024-09-17T07:00:23.163426 image/jpeg 481551 2024-09-17T07:00:22.590472 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