Project Gutenberg 2005-08-01 Public domain in the USA. 294 Edgeworth, Maria 1768 1849 Edgeworth, Eliza Edgeworth, Miss Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales Lame Jervas -- The will -- The Limerick gloves -- Out of debt out of danger -- The lottery -- Rosanna -- Murad the Unlucky -- The manufacturers -- The contrast -- The grateful Negro -- To-morrow. Text file produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Widger, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger "Tales and Novels — Volume 02" by Maria Edgeworth is a collection of stories written in the mid-19th century. This volume includes a variety of popular tales designed to entertain and educate readers from different walks of life, with a particular focus on themes of morality and social commentary. One of the significant elements is the character Lame Jervas, a young lad with a limp who works in Cornwall's tin mines, highlighting the struggles of the lower classes and their journeys toward better futures. The opening of the narrative sets the stage for Lame Jervas's story, which begins with his mysterious disappearance from the mines, prompting a series of supernatural speculations among the miners. As the tale unfolds, readers are introduced to Jervas as he unexpectedly reappears as a gentleman, recounting his past hardships and the kindnesses he received that changed his life. The narrative explores Jervas's transition from a mistreated child laborer to a young man of integrity and gratitude, ultimately leading to his success and moral growth thanks to the support of good-hearted individuals in his life. The opening portion effectively establishes Jervas as a sympathetic protagonist and introduces themes that resonate throughout the collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 73.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Fiction PR Text Category: Novels Category: British Literature 1246076 2025-08-04T06:59:21.203023 text/html 1285290 2021-02-26T00:12:15 text/html 516742 2025-08-04T06:59:33.695928 application/epub+zip 538972 2025-08-04T06:59:24.747032 application/epub+zip 524680 2025-08-04T06:59:23.292008 application/epub+zip 921488 2025-08-04T06:59:40.972943 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 854834 2025-08-04T06:59:32.730982 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 823805 2022-09-04T11:43:48.251629 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1101349 2025-08-04T06:59:19.494057 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1101252 2016-12-20T06:23:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1087588 2015-12-30T14:09:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1087582 2015-12-30T14:09:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 22205 2025-08-04T06:59:41.121905 application/rdf+xml 15901 2025-08-04T06:59:23.800988 image/jpeg 3889 2025-08-04T06:59:23.546988 image/jpeg 405276 2016-12-20T06:26:52 application/octet-stream application/zip 403758 2015-12-30T14:09:46 application/octet-stream application/zip 423781 2021-02-26T00:12:21 application/octet-stream application/zip 403726 2015-12-30T14:09:46 application/octet-stream application/zip 505651 2025-08-04T06:59:21.291036 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