Project Gutenberg 2005-02-04 Public domain in the USA. 188 Benson, Stella 1892 1933 Anderson, J. C. O'Gorman, Mrs. Living Alone Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Living Alone" by Stella Benson is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book explores themes of individuality and the eccentricities of social committees in wartime London, blending elements of magic and whimsicality. The opening introduces a peculiar assembly of women on a committee tasked with war savings, where a chaotic stranger emerges, shaking up their structured lives with her unconventional ideas. At the start of the story, we are introduced to a committee meeting that is disrupted by the entrance of a young woman referred to as the Stranger, who crawls under the table. As she introduces herself and her motivations, the members react with a mix of intrigue and judgment, reflecting the rigid nature of their committee work. The Stranger’s free-spirited nature and her whimsical complaint about the state of her life create a stark contrast to the serious tone of the meeting. Her claims about having "squandered" a large amount of money in a single day reveal an underlying critique of societal expectations during the war. This initial interaction sets the stage for a narrative that blends magic and reality as it delves into the lives of women struggling against societal norms and the search for genuine connections in a world that often values conformity over individuality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 80.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Fantasy literature World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction London (England) -- Fiction Witches -- Fiction PR Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels Category: British Literature 285607 2025-08-06T11:46:40.630131 text/html 295978 2020-12-19T09:40:49 text/html 182700 2025-08-06T11:46:47.502088 application/epub+zip 184780 2025-08-06T11:46:43.511063 application/epub+zip 168760 2025-08-06T11:46:42.306097 application/epub+zip 328057 2025-08-06T11:46:50.577070 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 310465 2025-08-06T11:46:46.748072 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 275692 2022-09-07T18:55:16.537543 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 265564 2025-08-06T11:46:39.979106 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 265476 2020-12-19T09:40:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 265468 2020-12-19T09:40:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21163 2025-08-06T11:46:50.723032 application/rdf+xml 12436 2025-08-06T11:46:42.799078 image/jpeg 3165 2025-08-06T11:46:42.550093 image/jpeg 104033 2020-12-19T09:40:49 application/octet-stream application/zip 110177 2020-12-19T09:40:49 application/octet-stream application/zip 104004 2020-12-19T09:40:49 application/octet-stream application/zip 180207 2025-08-06T11:46:40.653085 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