Project Gutenberg 2014-02-22 Public domain in the USA. 159 McKenna, Stephen 1888 1967 Lady Lilith The Sensationalists, volume 1. Sequels: The Education of Eric Lane, #29041, The Secret Victory, #48133. E-text prepared by David Edwards, Martin Pettit, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "Lady Lilith" by Stephen McKenna is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story appears to follow a group of young men post-Oxford, exploring their ambitions, relationships, and the dynamics of their social lives as they transition into adulthood. Central to this narrative is the character of Lady Barbara Neave, the daughter of a viceroy, who seems to embody the pursuit of excitement and self-expression, contrasting with her more conventional peers. The opening of the book introduces the character dynamics within the Phoenix Club, a fictional group of friends reflecting on their futures amidst a backdrop of student life in Oxford. Conversations at a farewell dinner delve into personal ambitions, foreshadowing potential struggles ahead as the members contemplate their fates in both love and career. The scene sets a tone of introspection while establishing friendships and rivalries, particularly highlighting Eric Lane's aspirations in journalism and Jack Waring’s nonchalant approach towards a future in law, culminating in the group's collective optimism tempered with a sense of impending doom as they ponder who among them will succeed—or perhaps fail—in this new chapter of life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44982/44982-h/images/cover.jpg en Man-woman relationships -- Fiction World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - British Browsing: Fiction 639695 639470 2024-09-18T19:31:56.142555 2023-09-19T14:43:47.508465 text/html text/html 648880 2014-02-22T16:41:11 text/html 351281 2014-02-22T16:45:01 text/html application/zip 371488 2024-09-18T19:32:05.098769 application/epub+zip 379234 2024-09-18T19:31:57.431570 application/epub+zip 321491 2024-09-18T19:31:56.807551 application/epub+zip 571612 2024-09-18T19:32:10.967472 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 519567 2024-09-18T19:32:04.393539 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 462414 2022-09-20T14:15:57.214329 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 590637 590454 2024-09-18T19:31:54.453566 2023-09-19T14:43:45.945561 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 590201 2014-02-22T16:37:57 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 228953 2014-02-22T16:37:57 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 590209 2014-02-22T16:37:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 228945 2014-02-22T16:37:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21042 2024-09-18T19:32:11.114471 application/rdf+xml 18264 2024-09-18T19:31:56.919546 image/jpeg 2380 2024-09-18T19:31:56.863553 image/jpeg 349117 2024-09-18T19:31:56.204543 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