Project Gutenberg
2005-05-31
Public domain in the USA.
277
Graydon, William Murray
1864
1946
Graydon, W. Murray (William Murray)
In Friendship's Guise
Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Mary Meehan and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team
"In Friendship's Guise" by William Murray Graydon is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story begins in Paris in 1892, focusing on Jack Clare, an artist struggling to make ends meet while navigating the complexities of his marriage to Diane, a dancer at the Folies Bergère. The narrative introduces themes of love, disappointment, and the impact of financial instability on personal relationships. The opening of the novel sets the scene with Jack Clare expressing optimism as he heads to deliver a painting he has copied, expecting a payment that will alleviate their financial woes. However, when he discovers that the buyer has left town unexpectedly, Jack returns home only to face an emotional confrontation with Diane, who struggles with their precarious situation and ultimately reveals her discontent. Tensions rise as Jack vacillates between feelings of love for Diane and the turmoil their financial struggles bring, foreshadowing the complex and often painful dynamics of their relationship as the story unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.
en
Detective and mystery stories
Art thefts -- Fiction
PS
Text
Category: Novels
437621
2025-10-07T05:01:37.388612
text/html
458751
2020-12-14T13:50:44
text/html
246453
2025-10-07T05:01:45.646570
application/epub+zip
252642
2025-10-07T05:01:40.422587
application/epub+zip
238839
2025-10-07T05:01:39.185583
application/epub+zip
464459
2025-10-07T05:01:49.803593
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
433336
2025-10-07T05:01:44.839581
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
406407
2022-09-08T00:37:53.719513
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
416959
2025-10-07T05:01:36.443185
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
416790
2020-12-14T13:50:44
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
416781
2020-12-14T13:50:44
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
19863
2025-10-07T05:01:49.936516
application/rdf+xml
13124
2025-10-07T05:01:39.688578
image/jpeg
3344
2025-10-07T05:01:39.433604
image/jpeg
162376
2020-12-14T13:50:44
application/octet-stream
application/zip
167859
2020-12-14T13:50:44
application/octet-stream
application/zip
162345
2020-12-14T13:50:44
application/octet-stream
application/zip
239973
2025-10-07T05:01:37.422642
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