Ellice Quentin, and other stories: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Ellice Quentin, and other stories is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Hawthorne, Julian (1846–1934).
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"Ellice Quentin, and other stories" by Julian Hawthorne is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The volume blends psychological romance, social satire, and moral crisis, opening with a passionate love story that collides with ambition and fate, and shifting to continental settings for intrigue and adventure. Its characters—most notably the mercurial Ellice Quentin and the steadfast barrister Geoffrey Herne—face choices where love, pride, and worldly allure pull in opposite directions. The opening of the book begins with a preface championing brevity in fiction, then launches into Ellice Quentin: Geoffrey and Ellice fall intensely in love, but she abandons their engagement to secure an inheritance through marriage to another man, only to return years later torn between worldly glitter and the deeper claim of love. A charged reunion at a garden party leads to Geoffrey’s uncompromising ultimatum; two years on, she reappears saying she has left her husband, but Geoffrey reveals he is engaged to Gertrude. Ellice insists on meeting the new fiancée, pours three glasses of wine, and, having contrived a fatal choice for herself alone, dies moments after toasting them, leaving Geoffrey stricken and Gertrude stunned. The next tale, The Countess’s Ruby, opens on a Norman seaside: an English artist-narrator and his ardent American poet friend trade banter amid beach theatrics, a striking “pagan” beauty in a canoe, and a comic mishap with a missing peignoir, before a fog rolls in and the swimmer-poet vanishes into the haze, hinting at peril and further intrigue.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Ellice Quentin, and other stories
- Author credits: Hawthorne, Julian (1846–1934)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- American fiction -- 19th century
- Short stories, American
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- Category: American Literature
- Category: Romance
- Category: Short Stories
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