Project Gutenberg 2015-03-13 Public domain in the USA. 57 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock 1826 1887 Mulock, Miss Mulock, Dinah Maria A Life for a Life, Volume 1 (of 3) Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by the Internet Archive "A Life for a Life, Volume 1 (of 3)" by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik is a novel written in the mid-19th century. The story revolves around Theodora Johnston, a clergyman's daughter, who expresses her disdain for soldiers and reflects on her family's dynamics, particularly her relationship with her sisters. The novel explores themes of love, societal expectations, and personal identity within its social setting, capturing the inner thoughts and struggles of its protagonist. At the start of the book, Theodora shares her feelings about the military presence near her home, expressing a strong dislike for soldiers and their idleness during peacetime. As she navigates her relationships at a ball, she delineates the contrasting personalities of her sisters, Lisabel and Penelope, and their romantic entanglements. Encounters with the enigmatic Doctor Urquhart challenge her views and spark introspection about love and societal roles, setting up a dynamic exploration of character and emotion that promises to unfold throughout the novel. The opening establishes Theodora's character as complex, observant, and searching for her own identity amid the expectations placed upon her by family and society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 371565 371566 2024-09-20T06:30:08.911610 2023-09-20T16:21:24.683377 text/html text/html 384612 2021-02-21T09:21:55 text/html; charset=utf-8 131944 2021-02-21T09:21:58 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 214905 2024-09-20T06:30:17.441489 application/epub+zip 219109 2024-09-20T06:30:12.356501 application/epub+zip 203265 2024-09-20T06:30:10.996493 application/epub+zip 401761 2024-09-20T06:30:21.231010 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 380488 2024-09-20T06:30:16.548478 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 345993 2022-09-21T18:35:05.671623 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 310978 2024-09-20T06:30:08.040503 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 310996 2018-03-06T11:01:30 text/plain; charset=utf-8 123753 2018-03-19T06:44:00 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 310961 2017-12-25T12:07:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 123715 2017-12-25T12:07:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19348 2024-09-20T06:30:21.356944 application/rdf+xml 13999 2024-09-20T06:30:11.547545 image/jpeg 3655 2024-09-20T06:30:11.270495 image/jpeg 210299 2024-09-20T06:30:08.942510 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