Project Gutenberg 2024-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 153 Marryat, Florence 1837 1899 Lean, Florence Marryat Church Lean, Mrs. Francis Church, Mrs. Ross Church, Ross, Mrs. A moment of madness, and other stories (vol. 3 of 3) $aLondon :$bF. V. White & Co., $c1883. The first story in this volume begins in volume 2, #72575. Little white souls [concluded] -- Still waters -- Chit-chat from Andalusia -- The secret of economy -- 'Mother' -- In the heart of the Ardennes -- A midsummer's nightmare -- The ghost of Charlotte Cray. Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "A Moment of Madness, and Other Stories" (Vol. 3 of 3) by Florence Marryat is a collection of fictional short stories written during the late 19th century. The narratives often revolve around intense emotional situations, relationships, and societal observations, portraying the complexities of human behavior and interactions. The stories likely feature a variety of characters navigating the intricacies of life, love, and morality in Victorian society. The opening of the collection introduces us to Ethel Dunstan, who is currently unsettled in a castle with her young daughter, Katie, due to unsettling behavior from their servants, which Ethel perceives as madness. Ethel expresses bitterness over her husband’s absence, fearing his infidelity with a flirtatious acquaintance, Mrs. Lawless. As tensions rise, Ethel faces mysterious events surrounding her child's care and hears unsettling ghost stories about the castle’s past, including a tale of a murdered English woman and her child. This suspenseful beginning establishes themes of jealousy, fear, and the supernatural that likely permeate the subsequent stories in the volume. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/momentofmadnesso03lean 20210602192521marryat 1883 gb Reading ease score: 72.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en English fiction -- 19th century Short stories, English PR Text Category: Short Stories Category: British Literature 309544 2025-06-28T14:05:46.031483 text/html 284464 2024-01-01T06:59:33 text/html 681595 2025-06-28T14:05:53.027375 application/epub+zip 678222 2025-06-28T14:05:47.554453 application/epub+zip 249830 2025-06-28T14:05:46.693455 application/epub+zip 1256469 2025-06-28T14:05:56.068363 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1200750 2025-06-28T14:05:52.361418 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 275693 2025-06-28T14:05:45.481477 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 255785 2024-01-01T06:59:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16481 2025-06-28T14:05:56.555377 application/rdf+xml 15971 2025-06-28T14:05:47.003469 image/jpeg 2525 2025-06-28T14:05:46.848465 image/jpeg 1116372 2025-06-28T14:05:46.124455 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