Project Gutenberg 2004-12-20 Public domain in the USA. 210 King, Basil 1859 1928 King, William Benjamin Basil Lowell, Orson 1871 1956 The Street Called Straight Produced by Rick Niles, Karina Aleksandrova and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Street Called Straight" by Basil King is a novel written during the early 20th century. It explores themes of social class, human relationships, and personal crises through the interactions of its characters, primarily focusing on Peter Davenant, who reenters a familiar social circle after years of absence and faces unresolved feelings from his past. The opening of the novel introduces Peter Davenant as he attends a dinner hosted by Olivia Guion, a woman he once proposed to. Although Olivia treats him as a stranger, Davenant's internal reflections reveal a mix of past humiliation and ongoing admiration as he navigates his feelings about her imminent marriage to Colonel Rupert Ashley. The dinner setting highlights complex relationships among the guests, shedding light on Peter's struggles with his identity and societal expectations, teasing at deeper tensions and foreshadowing the conflicts to come as Guion's ambiguous situation unfolds against the backdrop of changing social dynamics. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 81.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Canadian fiction PS Text Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923 Category: Novels 639771 2025-07-06T09:31:14.400172 text/html 623502 2024-10-28T21:26:48 text/html 908790 2025-07-06T09:31:24.842178 application/epub+zip 917083 2025-07-06T09:31:17.190169 application/epub+zip 323477 2025-07-06T09:31:15.272160 application/epub+zip 5067582 2025-07-06T09:31:30.364101 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5033318 2025-07-06T09:31:23.276110 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 490107 2022-09-07T16:09:44.008261 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 609377 2023-10-06T12:50:58.554970 text/plain 589493 2024-10-28T21:26:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16568 2025-07-06T09:31:30.498067 application/rdf+xml 12574 2025-07-06T09:31:15.783136 image/jpeg 3681 2025-07-06T09:31:15.528137 image/jpeg 897119 2025-07-06T09:31:14.530175 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia