Project Gutenberg 2016-11-12 Public domain in the USA. 103 Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) 1833 1903 Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold Joshua Marvel Produced by Charles Bowen from page scans provided by Google Books (the University of California) "Joshua Marvel" by B. L. Farjeon is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around the titular character, Joshua Marvel, who is the son of a wood-turner in Stepney. As the novel unfolds, readers are set to explore themes of aspiration, familial expectations, and the struggle for identity against the backdrop of a working-class family. The opening of the book introduces the Marvel family, consisting of George Marvel, a wood-turner, his wife, and their two children, including Joshua. Despite their humble means, the family experiences love and respect in their overcrowded parish. Joshua grapples with his future and expresses a strong desire not to follow in his father's trade, leading to family discussions filled with both hope and uncertainty. As Joshua rejects the notion of being a wood-turner, his mother wishes for him to find purpose while his father ambiguously supports his son's pursuit of a different path, setting the stage for Joshua's eventual quest for self-discovery and ambition. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 79.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en English fiction -- 19th century PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels Category: British Literature 1200526 2025-06-21T10:35:26.485025 text/html 1204119 2024-10-23T01:23:10 text/html 502441 2025-06-21T10:35:40.228966 application/epub+zip 522740 2025-06-21T10:35:29.266051 application/epub+zip 522740 2025-06-21T10:35:27.627035 application/epub+zip 838758 2025-06-21T10:35:48.316978 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 806535 2025-06-21T10:35:39.094969 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 777963 2022-09-24T09:52:05.321730 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1097337 2023-09-23T07:08:00.489448 text/plain 1077646 2024-10-23T01:23:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15153 2025-06-21T10:35:48.467902 application/rdf+xml 11897 2025-06-21T10:35:28.271988 image/jpeg 3267 2025-06-21T10:35:27.941026 image/jpeg 489731 2025-06-21T10:35:26.588004 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