Project Gutenberg 2025-04-27 Public domain in the USA. 214 Roberts, Cecil 1892 1976 23006841 Scissors : $b A novel of youth $aNew York :$bFrederick A. Stokes Company, $c1923. Al Haines "Scissors: A Novel of Youth" by Cecil Roberts is a coming-of-age novel written in the early 20th century. The book centers on John Narcissus Dean, a boy growing from childhood in exotic Asia Minor to adolescence and early adulthood in England, capturing the challenges and intense emotional currents of youth. Through John's eyes, readers follow themes of displacement, friendship, family devotion, cross-cultural encounters, and the search for belonging. The opening of the novel follows John’s family as they journey by steamer from Constantinople along the Black Sea coast to the remote Turkish town of Amasia, where his father has business. Vivid scenes introduce John, his parents, and his devoted nurse Anna as they experience the marvel and peril of foreign lands, sharply observing the diversity and turbulence of the Ottoman world. The story then traces John's early life as an only child abroad: his loyal friendship with Ali, a Turkish boy; the loss of his mother; his longing for English school life; and the poignant leave-taking from his Eastern childhood. Arriving in England for boarding school, John faces the strangeness of English customs, makes new friends, and grapples with adolescent doubts and longings—a personal and cultural journey vividly captured from his youthful perspective. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015002718230&seq=9 20250415094204roberts 1923 US Reading ease score: 82.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Bildungsromans English fiction -- 20th century PR Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Novels Category: British Literature 655231 2025-09-30T05:52:41.599025 text/html 636555 2025-04-26T23:39:00 text/html 482851 2025-09-30T05:52:48.296974 application/epub+zip 493031 2025-09-30T05:52:42.544017 application/epub+zip 326036 2025-09-30T05:52:42.120995 application/epub+zip 663742 2025-09-30T05:52:52.929965 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 639430 2025-09-30T05:52:47.897007 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 613008 2025-09-30T05:52:40.118050 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 593313 2025-04-26T23:39:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16195 2025-09-30T05:52:53.067947 application/rdf+xml 11068 2025-09-30T05:52:42.217017 image/jpeg 2108 2025-09-30T05:52:42.169016 image/jpeg 443325 2025-09-30T05:52:41.655023 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