Abandoned
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Chapter I, The Wedding
28:33 -
Chapter II, The Medical Certificate
27:58 -
Chapter III, Trapped
35:40 -
Chapter IV, A Change of Mind
34:11 -
Chapter V, The Wreck
41:34 -
Chapter VI, The Fisherman
37:18 -
Chapter VII, The Boat's Crew
33:20 -
Chapter VIII, Conversations and Confidences
32:20 -
Chapter IX, The Chase
34:55 -
Chapter X, Two Graves
32:01 -
Chapter XI, The Chanticleer
39:54 -
Chapter XII, After Eight Years
33:04 -
Chapter XIII, At Ramsgate
34:43 -
Chapter XIV, A Rescue
38:06 -
Chapter XV, Mr. Goodhart Offers Marriage
48:50 -
Chapter XVI, Husband and Wife
38:42
Abandoned (1904) is a public domain work.
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On a September day in 1890, Lucretia Lane prepares for her wedding in a Bayswater bedroom while her friend Constance Ford watches her uneasy movements. Her mother urges her to finish dressing, and Major Stroud waits impatiently downstairs. The bride's agitation gives the preparations a troubled edge. William Clark Russell develops the scene through domestic conversation, closely observed gestures and the contrast between a public ceremony and private feeling.
The maritime setting takes a harsher shape in the island episode, where Reynolds struggles with hunger, isolation and grief after Goodhart's death. Cooking fish, fire making and the difficult work of burial give the adventure a practical, physical texture. This 1904 novel brings wedding expectations and lonely survival into the same narrative, offering readers a sea story attentive to the emotional cost of hardship.
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