Project Gutenberg 2005-08-01 Public domain in the USA. 117 Edgeworth, Maria 1767 1849 Edgeworth, Eliza Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales Reading ease score: 73.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. 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. Text file produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Widger, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger "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.) en Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 1245973 1245974 2024-10-04T08:34:09.073929 2023-10-04T08:00:50.652935 text/html text/html 1285290 2021-02-26T00:12:15 text/html; charset=utf-8 423781 2021-02-26T00:12:21 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 516683 2024-10-04T08:34:23.026864 application/epub+zip 539005 2024-10-04T08:34:13.064892 application/epub+zip 524712 2024-10-04T08:34:11.431005 application/epub+zip 921510 2024-10-04T08:34:31.353839 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 854834 2024-10-04T08:34:21.944851 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 823805 2022-09-04T11:43:48.251629 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1087756 1087598 2024-10-04T08:34:06.943939 2023-10-04T08:00:48.789904 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1101252 2016-12-20T06:23:08 text/plain; charset=utf-8 405276 2016-12-20T06:26:52 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1087588 2015-12-30T14:09:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 403758 2015-12-30T14:09:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1087582 2015-12-30T14:09:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 403726 2015-12-30T14:09:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23349 2024-10-04T08:34:31.866787 application/rdf+xml 15901 2024-10-04T08:34:11.995911 image/jpeg 3889 2024-10-04T08:34:11.711905 image/jpeg 505614 2024-10-04T08:34:09.176925 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