Project Gutenberg 2015-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 73 Besant, Walter 1836 1901 Besant, Sir Walter Maurice, Walter The Changeling Produced by Shaun Pinder, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive and HathiTrust.org) "The Changeling" by Walter Besant is a novel written in the late 19th century. The narrative revolves around themes of identity and the consequences of choices surrounding adoption and substitution of children, particularly focusing on a young mother seeking a solution to her grief after the loss of her son. The story unfolds with a prominent lady who is driven by desperation to adopt a child, leading to a complex web of emotions and moral dilemmas. The opening of the novel introduces us to a doctor who assists a young lady in adopting a child, as she is grieving her own deceased son. The scene is filled with tension as the lady expresses her sympathy for the child's biological mother, revealing the emotional weight of her decisions. The dialogue between the doctor and the lady hints at deeper themes of heredity and the unknown consequences of her actions. As the narrative progresses, it is clear this seemingly clandestine transaction sets off a chain of events that intertwines their lives irrevocably, setting the stage for explorations of familial bonds, identity, and societal expectations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en England -- Fiction Adoption -- Fiction Social classes -- England -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 555811 555815 2024-09-20T12:09:42.331253 2023-09-21T08:40:23.898287 text/html text/html 568065 2015-05-23T13:36:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 323264 2015-05-23T13:36:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 349414 2024-09-20T12:09:51.185235 application/epub+zip 354207 2024-09-20T12:09:43.814275 application/epub+zip 276063 2024-09-20T12:09:43.075289 application/epub+zip 524632 2024-09-20T12:09:56.434224 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 477471 2024-09-20T12:09:50.400218 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399100 2022-09-22T08:47:17.095954 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 505942 505719 2024-09-20T12:09:40.546280 2023-09-21T08:40:22.337175 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 506153 2015-05-23T13:36:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 191579 2015-05-23T13:36:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 18978 2024-09-20T12:09:56.569304 application/rdf+xml 21646 2024-09-20T12:09:43.182287 image/jpeg 2500 2024-09-20T12:09:43.129230 image/jpeg 323029 2024-09-20T12:09:42.416268 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