Project Gutenberg 2012-12-19 Public domain in the USA. 59 Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William) 1866 1921 Hornung, Ernest William Hornung, E.W. The Boss of Taroomba Reading ease score: 83.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Suzanne Shell, Martin Pettit 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.) "The Boss of Taroomba" by E. W. Hornung is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story unfolds in a bush setting in Australia, focusing on the characters’ interactions in a rural music shop run by a sensitive musician named Engelhardt. The narrative introduces themes of ambition, class, and the tension between creativity and practicality, particularly as Engelhardt navigates his passion for music against the backdrop of a rough and unrefined society. The opening of the book presents a vivid scene where Engelhardt, the piano tuner and aspiring musician, faces ridicule from a group of young men in Taroomba while performing for them. His performance is initially met with mockery, but the arrival of Naomi Pryse, the female boss of Taroomba, changes the dynamic. She shows kindness to Engelhardt, contrasting the rough behavior of the others. The subsequent interactions reveal Engelhardt's introspective nature and Naomi's strong character as they embark on a burgeoning friendship that hints at deeper themes of acceptance and self-discovery as the story progresses. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Australia -- Fiction Love stories PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 325776 325716 2024-11-17T12:46:05.232719 2023-09-18T07:40:14.812292 text/html text/html 330646 2012-12-19T06:13:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 119021 2012-12-19T06:13:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 192777 2024-11-17T12:46:12.915686 application/epub+zip 194371 2024-11-17T12:46:07.445712 application/epub+zip 194371 2024-11-17T12:46:06.109760 application/epub+zip 358387 2024-11-17T12:46:16.947658 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 329194 2024-11-17T12:46:12.019720 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 305188 2022-09-19T05:31:13.855782 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 288850 288630 2024-10-17T13:30:31.341014 2023-09-18T07:40:13.899287 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 288667 2012-12-19T06:13:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 111985 2012-12-19T06:13:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 288659 2012-12-19T06:13:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 111946 2012-12-19T06:13:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21871 2024-11-17T12:46:17.091791 application/rdf+xml 12695 2024-11-17T12:46:06.699715 image/jpeg 3509 2024-11-17T12:46:06.383711 image/jpeg 179361 2024-11-17T12:46:05.259731 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