Project Gutenberg 2025-08-02 Public domain in the USA. 1235 Lyster, Annette 1831 1908 Lyster, Annette M. Lyster, Annette Thomasina Kitton, Frederic George 1856 1904 Kitton, Fred G. (Frederic George) Kitton, Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kitton, F. G. (Frederic George) Kitton, Frederick George Mother's golden guineas $aLondon :$bSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, $c1889. "Mother's golden guineas" by Annette Lyster is a children's novel written in the late 19th century. It centers on spirited village boy Tom Adderley, whose hunger for adventure clashes with family duty and Christian conscience as he leaves his Yorkshire home, goes to sea, and finds his character tested by hardship, authority, and the hope of repaying his mother's treasured savings. The opening of the novel paints the close-knit, tradition-bound village of Burdeck and the thrifty Adderley household, especially the mother’s carefully hoarded guineas. Restless Tom quarrels over wages, briefly tries the forge, and—fired by the tales of wanderer Jeremiah Dwight—slips away at night with his mother’s money, reaches Liverpool, and ships out as a boy on a West India trader. Years later, as he returns prosperously, he is pressed into a Royal Navy frigate, loses his kit and savings during a boat scuffle, and grows sullen until kindly sailor Gideon Terlizzeck counsels him and reads the Prodigal Son. After Tom deserts at Port Royal and is recaptured, Gideon pleads for him; the captain spares flogging, Tom vows to do his duty, and the ship heads back to sea, setting the stage for his reform and future trials. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250707062427lyster 1889 GB Reading ease score: 90.4 (5th grade). Very easy to read. en Christian life -- Juvenile fiction Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction England -- Juvenile fiction Sailors -- Juvenile fiction Diligence -- Juvenile fiction Success -- Juvenile fiction Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction Impressment -- Juvenile fiction Obedience -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: British Literature 208233 2025-08-02T18:00:29.286295 text/html 183240 2025-08-02T17:17:25 text/html 1539362 2025-08-02T18:00:41.296263 application/epub+zip 1543886 2025-08-02T18:00:35.085275 application/epub+zip 137769 2025-08-02T18:00:31.316305 application/epub+zip 1612281 2025-08-02T18:00:46.953284 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1597466 2025-08-02T18:00:41.010255 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 190050 2025-08-02T18:00:28.812328 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 170291 2025-08-02T17:17:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 4694 2025-08-02T18:00:47.074209 application/rdf+xml 23162 2025-08-02T18:00:34.867279 image/jpeg 3263 2025-08-02T18:00:34.830281 image/jpeg 1959384 2025-08-02T18:00:29.369298 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