Project Gutenberg 2025-05-28 Public domain in the USA. 185 Wheelwright, John T. (John Tyler) 1856 1925 Attwood, Francis Gilbert 1856 1900 Attwood, F. G. A bad penny $aBoston :$bL. C. Page & Company, $c1896, pubdate 1901. Susan E., David E. Brown, Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, 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 bad penny" by John T. Wheelwright is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in an early 19th-century New England seaport, it follows Captain John Woodbury, his restless son James who longs for the sea, and the family upheaval sparked by the return of the disgraced, presumed-dead uncle, Thomas Cheever. The story blends maritime life, small-town politics, and moral tension as reputation, inheritance, and a boy’s future collide. The opening of the novel paints Oldbury’s genteel world and Woodbury’s sturdy new house, then plunges into conflict: James balks at being groomed for the ministry while his father insists on college. At a tense family tea, a stuttering stranger from a Havana schooner proves to be Cheever, who recounts years of misery, demands his share of the estate, and slips away, leaving James to secretly deliver a ring and plea for forgiveness to Widow Pickering. Meanwhile, the canny Deacon Fairbanks deduces Cheever’s return, summons the constable, and delays a bank loan that Woodbury seeks to hasten the man’s departure. Warned by Alice Fairbanks of the impending arrest, James rushes to the harbor and boards the schooner to caution his uncle as night falls. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/badpenny00whee/mode/2up 20250315070036wheelwrigh 1896 US Reading ease score: 77.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Boys -- Juvenile fiction Sailors -- Juvenile fiction Uncles -- Juvenile fiction Families -- Juvenile fiction New England -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels Category: American Literature 310312 2025-07-30T06:59:41.906594 text/html 284729 2025-05-28T00:55:34 text/html 1566333 2025-07-30T06:59:48.261553 application/epub+zip 1564235 2025-07-30T06:59:43.428614 application/epub+zip 403121 2025-07-30T06:59:42.583615 application/epub+zip 2448209 2025-07-30T06:59:51.851545 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2168934 2025-07-30T06:59:47.383559 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 280390 2025-07-30T06:59:41.271623 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 260478 2025-05-28T00:55:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15152 2025-07-30T06:59:52.012559 application/rdf+xml 20307 2025-07-30T06:59:42.814593 image/jpeg 2915 2025-07-30T06:59:42.695572 image/jpeg 2261406 2025-07-30T06:59:41.980605 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