Project Gutenberg 2025-04-16 Public domain in the USA. 152 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) 1835 1915 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth White, Babington Breddon, Miss Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon Braddon, Mary E. Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and sinners, vol. 1 $aUnited Kingdom :$bJohn Maxwell and Co., $c1873. Bob Taylor, Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and Sinners, vol. 1" by M. E. Braddon is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story centers around Lucius Davoren, a surgeon and amateur explorer whose fate becomes entangled with others during an ill-fated expedition in the Canadian wilderness. The book likely explores themes of survival, personal ambition, and the consequences of past secrets, with Lucius as the primary protagonist. The presence of mysterious characters, struggles against nature, and hints at tragic family history suggest a dramatic and psychological narrative. The opening of the novel unfolds in a bleak winter setting in the vast, isolated forests of British North America, where Lucius Davoren, joined by Geoffrey Hossack and Absalom Schanck, battles hunger and despair while waiting for rescue. Their dire circumstances are complicated by the arrival of a mysterious, brooding stranger, whose presence both unsettles and intrigues the group, especially when he reveals extraordinary musical abilities and evasive answers about his past. As the expedition's failures and misfortunes accumulate, tensions rise, culminating in illness, betrayal, and a horrifying act of cannibalism, forcing Lucius to confront both physical and moral extremes. The prologue closes with a shift to Lucius's life in London, hinting at a painful personal history involving a lost sister and unresolved grief—signaling the novel’s movement from physical survival to inner turmoil and social drama. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/luciusdavorenorp01brad 20201219041613braddon 1873 gb Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Psychological fiction Domestic fiction PR Text Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: British Literature 457697 2025-07-30T05:36:40.765296 text/html 432420 2025-04-16T10:22:19 text/html 428876 2025-07-30T05:36:48.639256 application/epub+zip 424892 2025-07-30T05:36:42.507285 application/epub+zip 412046 2025-07-30T05:36:41.493318 application/epub+zip 1163233 2025-07-30T05:36:53.113262 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1127724 2025-07-30T05:36:47.742283 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 412547 2025-07-30T05:36:39.962340 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 392545 2025-04-16T10:22:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16839 2025-07-30T05:36:53.269234 application/rdf+xml 17498 2025-07-30T05:36:41.729284 image/jpeg 2142 2025-07-30T05:36:41.607310 image/jpeg 746122 2025-07-30T05:36:40.816308 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