Project Gutenberg 2004-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 138 Hughes, Rupert 1872 1956 We Can't Have Everything: A Novel Reading ease score: 82.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. Text file produced by Earle Beach, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger "We Can't Have Everything: A Novel" by Rupert Hughes is a work of fiction likely penned in the early 20th century. The novel revolves around the contrasting lives of its characters, particularly focusing on Kedzie Thropp, a naive and ambitious young woman from a small town, who is determined to rise above her humble beginnings and explore the glamorous life of New York City. Through her interactions and entanglements with affluent figures such as Jim Dyckman and Charity Coe Cheever, the story unravels themes of aspiration, disillusionment, and the social dynamics that accompany wealth. At the start of the tale, Kedzie Thropp embarks on her first journey to New York with her family, filled with dreams of witnessing luxury and social prominence. She is introduced as an ordinary girl with extraordinary desires, juxtaposed against the wealth and sophistication she longs to attain. As she arrives in the bustling city, her naïveté is evident, from her excitement about the train ride to her awe of the places she passes. Along the way, we glimpse the lives of Jim Dyckman—a man burdened by the weight of wealth and expectations—and Charity Coe Cheever, whose volunteer work in a war hospital reveals her strength and vulnerability. The opening chapters set the stage for a narrative likely to explore how Kedzie's aspirations, misadventures, and encounters with the privileged can entangle and impact not just her own life, but also the lives of those around her. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en New York (State) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 1275465 1275466 2024-10-03T12:05:00.629870 2023-10-03T10:33:10.323181 text/html text/html 1323989 2021-02-26T01:17:28 text/html; charset=utf-8 443685 2021-02-26T01:17:32 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 539958 2024-10-03T12:05:18.295797 application/epub+zip 564471 2024-10-03T12:05:05.179060 application/epub+zip 542841 2024-10-03T12:05:03.339024 application/epub+zip 952409 2024-10-03T12:05:28.607846 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 863437 2024-10-03T12:05:16.824923 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 851252 2022-09-04T04:27:38.203069 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1071175 1071035 2024-10-03T12:04:55.741894 2023-10-03T10:33:05.803157 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1081334 2018-03-15T14:43:16 text/plain; charset=utf-8 421829 2018-03-15T14:44:08 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1070788 2013-06-10T13:26:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 420682 2013-06-10T13:27:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1070780 2013-06-10T13:26:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 420536 2013-06-10T13:27:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23538 2024-10-03T12:05:28.755825 application/rdf+xml 11760 2024-10-03T12:05:03.943852 image/jpeg 2854 2024-10-03T12:05:03.640945 image/jpeg 525595 2024-10-03T12:05:00.728863 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