Project Gutenberg 2014-06-18 Public domain in the USA. 175 Pemberton, Max 1863 1950 Pemberton, Sir Max Wood, Stanley L. 1866 1928 Wood, Stanley Llewellyn The Garden of Swords Produced by David Edwards, Fred Salzer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from images generously made available by The Internet Archive (http://archive.org). "The Garden of Swords" by Max Pemberton is a novel written during the late 19th century. This work delves into the intersecting lives of characters in the backdrop of impending war, focusing on the lives of Beatrix, an English woman married to a French soldier, Edmond Lefort, and the emotional complexities they face amid the atmosphere of love and conflict leading up to the Franco-Prussian War. At the start of the novel, the story unfolds in Strasbourg, where the wedding of Edmond Lefort and Beatrix Hamilton is both a joyous occasion and a moment of poignant reflection for the old man Père Bonot, who recalls his own past. The vibrant social scene at the castle, filled with dignitaries from the military and local townspeople, juxtaposes the narrator's insights into the characters' emotional states as they confront feelings of love and nostalgia. As the festivities unfold, an undercurrent of tension simmers regarding the imminent war, which looms over the lives of the newlyweds and the local populace, foreshadowing the drastic changes that are soon to come, setting the stage for the conflicts and emotional turmoil that will ensue. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46023/46023-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 90.3 (5th grade). Very easy to read. en Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 -- Fiction PR Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels 491450 2025-08-18T14:34:51.508873 text/html 473229 2024-10-24T08:08:07 text/html 685477 2025-08-18T14:34:59.664803 application/epub+zip 729233 2025-08-18T14:34:53.037808 application/epub+zip 281395 2025-08-18T14:34:52.322838 application/epub+zip 842091 2025-08-18T14:35:04.205754 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 781344 2025-08-18T14:34:58.963776 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 335378 2022-09-21T03:41:26.693974 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 415412 2025-08-18T14:34:50.822821 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 395543 2024-10-24T08:08:07 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16991 2025-08-18T14:35:04.370787 application/rdf+xml 17409 2025-08-18T14:34:52.426870 image/jpeg 2632 2025-08-18T14:34:52.374799 image/jpeg 640970 2025-08-18T14:34:51.584931 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