Project Gutenberg 2018-01-03 Public domain in the USA. 397 Kaye-Smith, Sheila 1887 1956 Fry, Sheila Kaye-Smith The Four Roads E-text prepared by ellinora, Brian Wilsden, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "The Four Roads" by Sheila Kaye-Smith is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book is set in a rural Sussex community, where it explores the lives of characters caught in the turmoil of World War I. The primary focus in the opening chapters is on Tom Beatup, a young farmer who is grappling with the impending realities of war and the responsibilities he will leave behind at his family farm. At the start of the story, the setting is vividly established through descriptions of the Sussex landscape intersected by four roads, which serve as both a physical and metaphorical framework. We meet Reverend Mr. Sumption, who is deeply troubled by the enlistment of his son Jerry, and we see Tom Beatup reluctantly preparing to leave his farm for the army. The burdens of familial responsibility weigh heavily on Tom as he navigates the conflicting emotions of duty and the desire to protect his home. This initial portion of the novel suggests themes of sacrifice, the harsh realities of rural life, and the impact of war on personal and communal identities. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 78.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction Sussex (England) -- Fiction PR Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels Category: British Literature 614745 2025-08-22T11:36:24.904393 text/html 600397 2024-10-23T03:04:49 text/html 387715 2025-08-22T11:36:32.578855 application/epub+zip 388927 2025-08-22T11:36:26.077478 application/epub+zip 308216 2025-08-22T11:36:25.486451 application/epub+zip 559283 2025-08-22T11:36:37.516900 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 518242 2025-08-22T11:36:31.986895 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 428323 2022-08-25T10:59:15.826113 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 570491 2025-08-22T11:36:23.971422 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 550614 2024-10-23T03:04:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16600 2025-08-22T11:36:37.656886 application/rdf+xml 17700 2025-08-22T11:36:25.575445 image/jpeg 2065 2025-08-22T11:36:25.531435 image/jpeg 331763 2025-08-22T11:36:24.957390 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