Project Gutenberg 2025-01-06 Public domain in the USA. 137 Fothergill, Jessie 1851 1891 Borderland : $b a country-town chronicle $aLondon :$bRichard Bentley & Sons, $c1890. Reading ease score: 78.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Peter Becker, KD Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Borderland: A Country-Town Chronicle" by Jessie Fothergill is a novel written in the late 19th century. This story is set in a quaint English country town and revolves around the lives of several young boys during their childhood, transitioning into their adult lives fraught with friendship, social dynamics, and familial expectations. The narrative focuses on Michael Langstroth and his interactions with his brother Gilbert, their friend Roger Camm, and the temperamental Otho Askam as well as their relationships with the women in their lives, particularly Magdalen Wynter. The opening of the novel introduces us to a nostalgic summer of youth where four boys, the sons of gentlemen from varied backgrounds, enjoy carefree adventures in an idyllic garden by the river Tees. As the narrative unfolds, we learn about the distinct personalities of each boy: the noble and proud Michael, the gentle Gilbert, the struggling Roger, and the impulsive Otho. The story later shifts to their adulthood, revealing changing fortunes and the complexity of their relationships, particularly the dynamics surrounding Otho's return to claim his inheritance at Thorsgarth. Themes of social standing, romantic entanglements, and the contrasting lives of the boys are emphasized, setting the stage for deeper explorations into their evolving identities and societal pressures. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/borderlandcountr00fothrich 20201011095625fothergill 1890 gb en English fiction -- 19th century PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 918762 2025-02-28T20:34:03.276991 text/html 892749 2025-01-14T09:00:59 text/html 638075 2025-02-28T20:34:16.653899 application/epub+zip 635401 2025-02-28T20:34:05.797973 application/epub+zip 461108 2025-02-28T20:34:04.486967 application/epub+zip 815282 2025-02-28T20:34:24.427859 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 759242 2025-02-28T20:34:15.377928 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 803248 2025-02-28T20:34:01.010022 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 783364 2025-01-14T09:00:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15844 2025-02-28T20:34:24.587859 application/rdf+xml 8405 2025-02-28T20:34:04.634964 image/jpeg 1650 2025-02-28T20:34:04.560954 image/jpeg 501409 2025-02-28T20:34:03.357007 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