Project Gutenberg 2022-10-11 Public domain in the USA. 136 Brady, Cyrus Townsend 1861 1920 Kinney, Margaret West 1872 1952 Kinney, Troy 1871 1938 Kinneys, The The island of the stairs $aUnited States :$bA. L. Burt Company, Publishers,$c1913. Emmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Island of the Stairs" by Cyrus Townsend Brady is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story opens with a dramatic scene involving the suicide of Sir Geoffrey Wilberforce, a baronet, which sets off a chain of events that will impact his daughter, Mistress Lucy. The narrative introduces Master Hampdon, a sailor devoted to Lucy, as he grapples with the aftermath of Sir Geoffrey's death, revealing themes of love, loss, and social class. At the start of the novel, Master Hampdon discovers the body of Sir Geoffrey in a spinney, leading to a profound emotional response as he confronts the implications of the baronet's tragic end. Shortly after, he overhears the callous remarks of two men, including the Duke of Arcester, who dismiss the tragedy while discussing their own interests. Hampdon, fueled by indignation, intervenes and defends Lucy's honor, further complicating the relationships between these characters. The opening Chapters explore the complexities of social status, the depths of personal devotion, and foreshadow the adventure that awaits on the titular Island of the Stairs, where a hidden treasure tied to their lineage could alter their fates forever. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/islandofstairs00bradiala/page/n7/mode/2up 20201214091751brady 1913 US Reading ease score: 78.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Sea stories Oceania -- Fiction South Pacific Ocean -- Fiction PS Text Category: Adventure Category: Novels 452161 2025-07-27T10:26:29.795750 text/html 450828 2022-10-11T01:00:26 text/html 1095543 2025-07-27T10:26:37.940694 application/epub+zip 1091043 2025-07-27T10:26:31.723725 application/epub+zip 463878 2025-07-27T10:26:30.680759 application/epub+zip 1825148 2025-07-27T10:26:42.403683 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1542638 2025-07-27T10:26:37.062678 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 407281 2025-07-27T10:26:28.635734 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 406974 2022-10-11T01:00:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19432 2025-07-27T10:26:42.600666 application/rdf+xml 16184 2025-07-27T10:26:30.951727 image/jpeg 2686 2025-07-27T10:26:30.813716 image/jpeg 152058 2022-10-11T01:00:51 application/octet-stream application/zip 1413725 2022-10-11T01:00:51 application/octet-stream application/zip 1569967 2025-07-27T10:26:29.872742 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