Project Gutenberg 2015-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 159 Besant, Walter 1836 1901 Besant, Sir Walter Maurice, Walter The Changeling Produced by Shaun Pinder, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive and HathiTrust.org) "The Changeling" by Walter Besant is a novel written in the late 19th century. The narrative revolves around themes of identity and the consequences of choices surrounding adoption and substitution of children, particularly focusing on a young mother seeking a solution to her grief after the loss of her son. The story unfolds with a prominent lady who is driven by desperation to adopt a child, leading to a complex web of emotions and moral dilemmas. The opening of the novel introduces us to a doctor who assists a young lady in adopting a child, as she is grieving her own deceased son. The scene is filled with tension as the lady expresses her sympathy for the child's biological mother, revealing the emotional weight of her decisions. The dialogue between the doctor and the lady hints at deeper themes of heredity and the unknown consequences of her actions. As the narrative progresses, it is clear this seemingly clandestine transaction sets off a chain of events that intertwines their lives irrevocably, setting the stage for explorations of familial bonds, identity, and societal expectations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 84.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. en England -- Fiction Adoption -- Fiction Social classes -- England -- Fiction PR Text Category: Novels Category: British Literature 555995 2025-07-19T14:29:35.761318 text/html 547703 2024-10-24T17:27:34 text/html 349486 2025-07-19T14:29:43.175303 application/epub+zip 354180 2025-07-19T14:29:36.956338 application/epub+zip 276039 2025-07-19T14:29:36.353294 application/epub+zip 524462 2025-07-19T14:29:47.901314 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 477565 2025-07-19T14:29:42.472325 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399100 2022-09-22T08:47:17.095954 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 505753 2025-07-19T14:29:34.421334 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 485912 2024-10-24T17:27:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17451 2025-07-19T14:29:48.030240 application/rdf+xml 21646 2025-07-19T14:29:36.446300 image/jpeg 2500 2025-07-19T14:29:36.400306 image/jpeg 323073 2025-07-19T14:29:35.811311 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