Project Gutenberg 2025-03-20 Public domain in the USA. 641 Meade, L. T. 1854 1914 Smith, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Meade, Mrs. L. T. Thomas, Elizabeth Meade, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade, Lillie Mead, L. T. Outcast Robin : $b or, Your brother and mine : a cry from the great city New edition $aLondon :$bJohn F. Shaw and Co., $c1906. Reading ease score: 77.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Al Haines "Outcast Robin: or, Your Brother and Mine: A Cry from the Great City" by L.T. Meade is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story presents a poignant portrayal of poverty and child neglect in urban settings, emphasizing societal failures and the dire consequences for innocent lives. Central to the narrative is Robin, a baby born into a chaotic and impoverished family, whose early life is marked by the absence of nurturing parental care. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to the Timbs family in Blind Alley, London. The bleak circumstances of Robin's birth are revealed alongside his dying mother’s final wishes for her children. Immediately after her death, Robin is handed off, ultimately ending up in a workhouse after being abandoned by his alcoholic father. The opening sets a deeply emotional tone, vividly illustrating the harsh realities faced by the family as they struggle against adversity, thus foreshadowing Robin's tumultuous journey through childhood in a world rife with neglect and hardship. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250315205259meade 1906 GB en Poor -- Juvenile fiction London (England) -- Juvenile fiction Abandoned children -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Fiction 215370 2025-03-21T08:01:19.412943 text/html 193514 2025-03-21T06:37:54 text/html 467875 2025-03-21T08:01:32.918918 application/epub+zip 470190 2025-03-21T08:01:25.811905 application/epub+zip 142279 2025-03-21T08:01:21.677919 application/epub+zip 540052 2025-03-21T08:01:39.281856 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 525645 2025-03-21T08:01:32.590895 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 193683 2025-03-21T08:01:18.869945 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 170176 2025-03-21T06:37:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14471 2025-03-21T08:01:39.418823 application/rdf+xml 12544 2025-03-21T08:01:25.554899 image/jpeg 1893 2025-03-21T08:01:25.510906 image/jpeg 619972 2025-03-21T08:01:19.478913 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