Project Gutenberg 2015-07-28 Public domain in the USA. 82 Garvice, Charles 1850 1920 The spider and the fly : $b or, An undesired love Eagle series, no. 300 Produced by Chris Whitehead, Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University (http://digital.library.villanova.edu/)) "The Spider and the Fly: or, An Undesired Love" by Charles Garvice is a novel written in the late 19th century. The book follows the intricate lives of two main characters, Captain Howard Murpoint and Mr. Jem, who are convicts attempting to escape from a notorious prison. In this tale of deception and longing, the central theme revolves around the desires and struggles of individuals constrained by their past actions and societal expectations. At the start of the story, the setting is established at sunset near a grim convict station on the rocky shore, where a weary and sullen group of convicts toils under the watchful eyes of warders. The narrative then introduces the plan of Captain Murpoint as he communicates with Jem, hinting at a daring escape under the cover of night. The tension builds as they prepare for their audacious bid for freedom, driven by desperation and the hope of reclaiming lives lost to their circumstances. Simultaneously, the juxtaposition of Murpoint's longing for the life and wealth of John Mildmay’s daughter, Violet, begins to surface, hinting at deeper emotional entanglements in the tale yet to unfold. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en English fiction Dime novels PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 705544 705529 2024-09-20T14:54:53.678764 2023-09-21T11:14:46.679541 text/html text/html 721313 2015-07-28T10:44:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 595187 2015-07-28T10:44:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 669485 2024-09-20T14:55:04.775701 application/epub+zip 678445 2024-09-20T14:54:55.264712 application/epub+zip 334352 2024-09-20T14:54:54.400826 application/epub+zip 909000 2024-09-20T14:55:11.715669 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 850294 2024-09-20T14:55:03.790728 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 506837 2022-09-22T12:29:26.526902 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 649952 649793 2024-09-20T14:54:49.958780 2023-09-21T11:14:43.456497 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 650126 2015-07-28T10:44:38 text/plain; charset=utf-8 242107 2015-07-28T10:44:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18386 2024-09-20T14:55:11.864627 application/rdf+xml 34771 2024-09-20T14:54:54.573755 image/jpeg 5074 2024-09-20T14:54:54.491720 image/jpeg 604453 2024-09-20T14:54:53.747718 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