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Run to Earth: A Novel

M. E. Braddon

The novel unfolds a tale of intrigue, exploring themes of love, betrayal, and the darker elements of human nature through the eyes of its protagonist, Captain Valentine Jernam, as he navigates the perilous waters of fate and deception.

"Run to Earth: A Novel" by M. E. Braddon is a fictional work. The novel unfolds a tale of intrigue, exploring themes of love, betrayal, and the darker elements of human nature through the eyes of its protagonist, Captain Valentine Jernam, as he navigates the perilous waters of fate and deception.

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Seven-and-twenty years ago, and a bleak evening in March. There are gas-lamps flaring down in Ratcliff Highway, and the sound of squeaking fiddles and trampling feet in many public-houses tell of festivity provided for Jack-along-shore. The emporiums of slop-sellers are illuminated for the better display of tarpaulin coats and hats, so stiff of build that they look like so many sea-faring suicides, pendent from the low ceilings. These emporiums are here and there enlivened by festoons of many-coloured bandana handkerchief's; and on every pane of glass in shop or tavern window is painted the glowing representation of Britannia's pride, the immortal Union Jack.

Two men sat drinking and smoking in a little parlour at the back of an old public-house in Shadwell. The room was about as large as a good-sized cupboard, and was illuminated in the day-time by a window commanding a pleasant prospect of coal-shed and dead wall. The paper on the walls was dark and greasy with age; and every bit of clumsy, bulging deal furniture in the room had been transformed into a kind of ebony by the action of time and dirt, the greasy backs and elbows of idle loungers, the tobacco-smoke and beer-stains of half a century.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter II.
  2. 02Chapter III.
  3. 03Chapter IV.
  4. 04Chapter V.
  5. 05Chapter VI.
  6. 06Chapter VII.
  7. 07Chapter VIII.
  8. 08Chapter IX.
  9. 09Chapter X.
  10. 10Chapter XI.
  11. 11Chapter XII.
  12. 12Chapter XIII.
  13. 13Chapter XIV.
  14. 14Chapter XV.
  15. 15Chapter XVI.
  16. 16Chapter XVII.
  17. 17Chapter XVIII.
  18. 18Chapter XIX.
  19. 19Chapter XX.
  20. 20Chapter XXI.
  21. 21Chapter XXII.
  22. 22Chapter XXIII.
  23. 23Chapter XXIV.
  24. 24Chapter XXV.
  25. 25Chapter XXVI.
  26. 26Chapter XXVII.
  27. 27Chapter XXVIII.
  28. 28Chapter XXIX.
  29. 29Chapter XXX.
  30. 30Chapter XXXI.
  31. 31Chapter XXXII.
  32. 32Chapter XXXIII.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIV.
  34. 34Chapter XXXV.
  35. 35Chapter XXXVI.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVII.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVIII.
  38. 38Chapter XXXIX.
  39. 39Chapter XL.

About this edition

Author
M. E. Braddon
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
635 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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