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Title: Tales and Novels — Volume 02
Popular Tales

Note: Reading ease score: 73.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Contents: Lame Jervas -- The will -- The Limerick gloves -- Out of debt out of danger -- The lottery -- Rosanna -- Murad the Unlucky -- The manufacturers -- The contrast -- The grateful Negro -- To-morrow.

Credits: Text file produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Widger, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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Summary: "Tales and Novels — Volume 02" by Maria Edgeworth is a collection of stories written in the mid-19th century. This volume includes a variety of popular tales designed to entertain and educate readers from different walks of life, with a particular focus on themes of morality and social commentary. One of the significant elements is the character Lame Jervas, a young lad with a limp who works in Cornwall's tin mines, highlighting the struggles of the lower classes and their journeys toward better futures. The opening of the narrative sets the stage for Lame Jervas's story, which begins with his mysterious disappearance from the mines, prompting a series of supernatural speculations among the miners. As the tale unfolds, readers are introduced to Jervas as he unexpectedly reappears as a gentleman, recounting his past hardships and the kindnesses he received that changed his life. The narrative explores Jervas's transition from a mistreated child laborer to a young man of integrity and gratitude, ultimately leading to his success and moral growth thanks to the support of good-hearted individuals in his life. The opening portion effectively establishes Jervas as a sympathetic protagonist and introduces themes that resonate throughout the collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849

EBook No.: 8720

Published: Aug 1, 2005

Downloads: 114

Language: English

Subject: Fiction

LoCC: Language and Literatures: English literature

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

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Title: Tales and Novels — Volume 02
Popular Tales

Note: Reading ease score: 73.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Contents: Lame Jervas -- The will -- The Limerick gloves -- Out of debt out of danger -- The lottery -- Rosanna -- Murad the Unlucky -- The manufacturers -- The contrast -- The grateful Negro -- To-morrow.

Credits: Text file produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Widger, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
HTML file produced by David Widger

Summary: "Tales and Novels — Volume 02" by Maria Edgeworth is a collection of stories written in the mid-19th century. This volume includes a variety of popular tales designed to entertain and educate readers from different walks of life, with a particular focus on themes of morality and social commentary. One of the significant elements is the character Lame Jervas, a young lad with a limp who works in Cornwall's tin mines, highlighting the struggles of the lower classes and their journeys toward better futures. The opening of the narrative sets the stage for Lame Jervas's story, which begins with his mysterious disappearance from the mines, prompting a series of supernatural speculations among the miners. As the tale unfolds, readers are introduced to Jervas as he unexpectedly reappears as a gentleman, recounting his past hardships and the kindnesses he received that changed his life. The narrative explores Jervas's transition from a mistreated child laborer to a young man of integrity and gratitude, ultimately leading to his success and moral growth thanks to the support of good-hearted individuals in his life. The opening portion effectively establishes Jervas as a sympathetic protagonist and introduces themes that resonate throughout the collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849

EBook No.: 8720

Published: Aug 1, 2005

Downloads: 114

Language: English

Subject: Fiction

LoCC: Language and Literatures: English literature

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.