Project Gutenberg 2025-07-05 Public domain in the USA. 176 McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly) 1860 1936 McCarthy, Justin Huntly M'Carthy, Justin Huntly 05008377 The dryad : $b a novel $aNew York :$bHarper & Brothers, $c1905. Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "The dryad : a novel" by Justin H. McCarthy is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set amid medieval Frankish-ruled Greece, it weaves chivalric romance with lingering Greek pagan enchantment as a rough soldier of fortune, a high-minded young prince, and an immortal forest nymph collide. The likely focus is on the clash between cynicism and idealism, the endurance of the old gods’ magic, and a perilous love between mortal and immortal, chiefly through Simon of Rouen, Rainouart of the Rock, and the dryad Argathona. The opening of the novel follows Simon of Rouen into the Eleusinian wood, where his coarse wit, empty purse, and misanthropic “lantern for honesty” contrast sharply with a young knight he meets reading the Romance of the Rose. After spitefully directing lurking thieves toward the knight, Simon naps and wakes to Argathona, a dryad who claims ancient lineage and effortless strength, rebuffing his clumsy advances and compelling him to aid the ambushed rider. She races him to the scene, summons a terror-storm to scatter the robbers, and tends the wounded youth—Rainouart—whose life and vigor revive under her touch. As Simon fetches water, Argathona and Rainouart exchange tender words that flower into first love; he offers lifelong devotion, even to dwell in the forest, while she, bound to the greenwood, hesitates and goes to seek a healing herb. Meanwhile, Simon returns unseen, spies on their meeting, steals the knight’s cherished book, and, torn between envy and pity, toys with darker thoughts over the helpless rival. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433074875240 20230214074001mccarthy 1905 US Reading ease score: 72.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Historical fiction Dryads -- Fiction Mythological fiction PR Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Romance Category: Novels Category: British Literature 473902 2025-07-30T08:11:30.447288 text/html 448659 2025-07-05T10:33:00 text/html 459473 2025-07-30T08:11:36.896227 application/epub+zip 458932 2025-07-30T08:11:31.424266 application/epub+zip 312280 2025-07-30T08:11:30.926217 application/epub+zip 561449 2025-07-30T08:11:41.141225 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 532650 2025-07-30T08:11:36.433266 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 450528 2025-07-30T08:11:29.771280 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 430657 2025-07-05T10:33:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14502 2025-07-30T08:11:41.341166 application/rdf+xml 13442 2025-07-30T08:11:31.103214 image/jpeg 2327 2025-07-30T08:11:31.014222 image/jpeg 459401 2025-07-30T08:11:30.495236 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