A Country Idyl, and Other Stories

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolton, Sarah Knowles, 1841-1916

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"A Country Idyl, and Other Stories" by Sarah Knowles Bolton is a collection of short stories likely written in the late 19th century. The stories feature various characters navigating themes of love, loss, and societal expectations set against the backdrop of small-town life in New England. As the title suggests, the stories interweave rustic life with deeper emotional narratives, exploring human relationships and the choices individuals make. At the start of "A Country Idyl," we are introduced to the quiet town of Nineveh, where the miller Crandall and his wife live a content life until they adopt their niece, Nellie. The narrative contrasts Nellie's innocent affection for her childhood friend John Harding with her budding attention to a city youth, Byron Marshall, leading to a love triangle. John confesses his lifelong love for Nellie, setting the premise for heartache as she becomes entangled with the more worldly Byron, ultimately leading to complications that twist through themes of fidelity and societal acceptance. This opening portion establishes the characters' relationships and foreshadows the emotional trials they will encounter in the pursuit of love and personal fulfillment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

A country idyl

The second time

Fifteen thousand dollars

The ring of gold

Four letters

Rewarded

The unopened letter

Three college students

The Twilight Hour Society

Slave Amy

Like our neighbors

Two at once

The house-warming

Hannah and Joe

Burton Cone's reason

Unsuitable

Playing with hearts

Duty

Waify

The black and tan

The Christian hunter

Love's Christmas gift

An unfortunate sail

A new kind of wedding

Lost his place

Struck it rich

Food at the door

How the dog tax was paid

The story of Douglas

Credits:

Produced by Giovanni Fini, Shaun Pinder and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 80.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Release date is 2015-07-12