Book
Modern Broods; or, Developments Unlooked For
The story revolves around the life of Magdalen Prescott, who comes into an unexpected inheritance and seeks to establish a home for her younger sisters, Agatha, Vera, and Paulina, while navigating the challenges of family dynamics and societal expectations.
"Modern Broods; Or, Developments Unlooked For" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a novel. The story revolves around the life of Magdalen Prescott, who comes into an unexpected inheritance and seeks to establish a home for her younger sisters, Agatha, Vera, and Paulina, while navigating the challenges of family dynamics and societal expectations.
What you get
- The book as EPUB, PDF, delivered to your library after payment.
- Bought on its own: yours to keep.
- With Library Pass: 1 month: 2061 books, 30 days of access, one payment, doesn't renew.
- With Library Pass: 3 months: 2061 books, 91 days of access, one payment, doesn't renew.
- With Library Pass: 6 months: 2061 books, 182 days of access, one payment, doesn't renew.
- With Library Pass: 1 year: 2061 books, 365 days of access, one payment, doesn't renew.
Read a passage
“Whate’er is good to wish, ask that of Heaven, Though it be what thou canst not hope to see.”
The scene was a drawing-room, with old-fashioned heavy sash windows opening on a narrow brick-walled town-garden sloping down to a river, and neatly kept. The same might be said of the room, where heavy old-fashioned furniture, handsome but not new, was concealed by various flimsy modernisms, knicknacks, fans, brackets, china photographs and water-colours, a canary singing loud in the window in the winter sunshine.
“Miss Prescott,” announced the maid; but, finding no auditor save the canary, she retreated, and Miss Prescott looked round her with a half sigh of recognition of the surroundings. She was herself a quiet-looking, gentle lady, rather small, with a sweet mouth and eyes of hazel, in a rather worn face, dressed in a soft woollen and grey fur, with headgear to suit, and there was an air of glad expectation, a little flush, that did not look permanent, on her thin cheeks.
“Is it you, my dear Miss Prescott?” was the greeting of the older hostess as she entered, her grey hair rough and uncovered, and her dress of well-used black silk, her complexion of the red that shows wear and care. “Then it is true?” she asked, as the kiss and double shake of the hand was exchanged.
“May I ask? Is it true? May I congratulate you?”
“Oh, yes, it is true!” said Miss Prescott, breathlessly. “I suppose the girls are at the High School?”
Contents
- 01Chapter I—Tortoises and Hares
- 02Chapter II—The Goyle
- 03Chapter III—The First Sunday
- 04Chapter IV—Cycles
- 05Chapter V—Clipstone Friends
- 06Chapter VI—The Frescoes of St. Kenelm’s
- 07Chapter VII—Sister and Sisters
- 08Chapter VIII—Snobbishness
- 09Chapter IX—Gone Over to the Enemy
- 10Chapter X—Flown
- 11Chapter XI—Adrift
- 12Chapter XII—“The Kittiwake”
- 13Chapter XIII—Chimeras Dire
- 14Chapter XIV—Pairing Time Anticipated
- 15Chapter XV—Broods Astray
- 16Chapter XVI—The Regiment of Women
- 17Chapter XVII—Foxgloves and Flirtations
- 18Chapter XVIII—Palaces or Churches
- 19Chapter XIX—Two Weddings
- 20Chapter XX—Fleeting
- 21Chapter XXI—The Electricians
- 22Chapter XXII—Angel and Bear
- 23Chapter XXIII—Willow Widows
- 24Chapter XXIV—Cruel Lawyers
- 25Chapter XXV—Bear as Adviser
- 26Chapter XXVI—New Paths
- 27Chapter XXVII—A Sentence
- 28Chapter XXVIII—Summoned
- 29Chapter XXIX—Safe
- 30Chapter XXX—The Maiden Rocks
- 31Chapter XXXI—The Wreck
- 32Chapter XXXII—Anchored
- 33Chapter XXXIII—Farewell
About this edition
- Author
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 252 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
Reader reviews
No reviews yet. Reviews appear here once readers write them.
Sign in to write a review.
Discussion
No comments yet. Members can discuss this book here.
Sign in to join the discussion.
Reviews and comments are written by readers, not by us. Be kind and stay on the book; we remove anything abusive or off-topic. See the Terms.