Project Gutenberg 2017-02-25 Public domain in the USA. 110 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart 1844 1911 Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Phelps, E. Stuart (Elizabeth Stuart) The Gates Ajar Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_Ajar Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) "The Gates Ajar" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is a novel written in the late 19th century. It centers around Mary Cabot, a young woman grappling with the sudden death of her beloved brother, Royal, who was a soldier in the army. Amidst her profound grief, Mary reflects on concepts of love, loss, and the nature of the afterlife, questioning traditional beliefs about heaven and her connection to her brother. The opening of the novel introduces us to Mary in a state of deep sorrow, only a week after receiving terrible news about her brother's death. As she navigates her grief, she struggles with the inadequacies of societal condolences and the overwhelming silence of her home now devoid of Royal. Through her recollections, we glimpse their close bond and her longing for their shared past. Mary’s internal conflict intensifies as she questions her understanding of faith, God, and what it means to truly be "resigned" to God's will in the face of such loss. These initial chapters set the stage for a moving exploration of the themes of mortality, love, and the possibility of reconnection beyond death. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 78.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Christian fiction Spiritualism -- Fiction Future life -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature Category: Religion/Spirituality 333389 2025-07-21T13:22:06.996589 text/html 316842 2024-10-23T01:47:24 text/html 197868 2025-07-21T13:22:12.545580 application/epub+zip 200374 2025-07-21T13:22:08.058615 application/epub+zip 200374 2025-07-21T13:22:07.527562 application/epub+zip 303572 2025-07-21T13:22:15.781533 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 267429 2025-07-21T13:22:11.960542 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 266876 2022-09-24T17:36:05.477995 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 296242 2025-07-21T13:22:06.339626 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 276372 2024-10-23T01:47:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17887 2025-07-21T13:22:15.920562 application/rdf+xml 6402 2025-07-21T13:22:07.609566 image/jpeg 1661 2025-07-21T13:22:07.568567 image/jpeg 173188 2025-07-21T13:22:07.024589 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