Project Gutenberg 2024-04-07 Public domain in the USA. 219 Delafield, E. M. 1890 1943 De La Pasture, Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, Elizabeth M. The heel of Achilles $aNew York :$bThe MacMillan Company, $c1921. 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) "The Heel of Achilles" by E. M. Delafield is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the character Lydia Raymond, a precocious and introspective twelve-year-old orphan who faces the complications of her new life with her aunts and grandfather after her mother’s death. The narrative explores themes of individuality, grief, and the quest for autonomy within the confines of family expectations and the rigidity of social norms. The opening of the novel introduces Lydia as she reflects on her status as an orphan, revealing her feelings of neglect amid the well-intended but suffocating care of her relatives. As the chapters unfold, Lydia grapples with the attention of her family members who are more concerned about their grief than her own feelings. The text provides a rich backdrop of early 20th-century British society, showcasing Lydia's keen observations about her relatives' behaviors and expectations. Through her experiences, we witness her attempts to carve out her own identity while navigating the complex dynamics of her new household, underlining her journey of self-discovery and assertion against the backdrop of familial obligations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/heelachilles01delagoog 20210307224210delafield 1921 US Reading ease score: 72.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Orphans -- Fiction Young women -- Fiction Bildungsromans Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Girls -- Fiction England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction Families -- Fiction Egoism -- Fiction PR Text Category: Novels Category: British Literature 848613 2025-06-29T05:50:14.638520 text/html 823458 2025-06-24T08:40:52 text/html 882063 2025-06-29T05:50:26.114406 application/epub+zip 877679 2025-06-29T05:50:16.678446 application/epub+zip 537190 2025-06-29T05:50:15.602485 application/epub+zip 1474570 2025-06-29T05:50:32.791466 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1164784 2025-06-29T05:50:25.015488 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 775791 2025-06-29T05:50:11.706536 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 738883 2025-06-24T08:40:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17926 2025-06-29T05:50:32.936375 application/rdf+xml 12905 2025-06-29T05:50:15.832465 image/jpeg 2136 2025-06-29T05:50:15.715470 image/jpeg 1019247 2025-06-29T05:50:14.713494 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