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The Gadfly

by Ethel Voynich

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1897
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  1. Part I, Chapter I

    21:20

  2. Part I, Chapter II

    22:23

  3. Part I, Chapter III

    14:30

  4. Part I, Chapter IV

    20:25

  5. Part I, Chapter V

    17:39

  6. Part I, Chapter VI

    32:36

  7. Part I, Chapter VII

    35:23

  8. Part II, Chapter I

    22:15

  9. Part II, Chapter II

    26:34

  10. Part II, Chapter III

    26:37

  11. Part II, Chapter IV

    23:57

  12. Part II, Chapter V

    25:12

  13. Part II, Chapter VI

    21:18

  14. Part II, Chapter VII

    18:23

  15. Part II, Chapter VIII

    39:46

  16. Part II, Chapter IX

    32:49

  17. Part II, Chapter X

    16:19

  18. Part II, Chapter XI

    31:26

  19. Part III, Chapter I

    24:11

  20. Part III, Chapter II

    24:26

  21. Part III, Chapter III

    25:18

  22. Part III, Chapter IV

    32:23

  23. Part III, Chapter V

    16:41

  24. Part III, Chapter VI

    35:11

  25. Part III, Chapter VII

    20:20

  26. Part III, Chapter VIII

    30:29

  27. Epilogue

    10:27

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Set in Italy during the 1840s, when the peninsula chafed under Austrian rule, this novel traces the transformation of Arthur Burton, a devout young Englishman betrayed by the church and by the people he trusts. He fakes his death, disappears for years, and returns as the Gadfly, a mordant satirical writer and revolutionary whose buried past ties him to the priest he once revered. Voynich weaves faith, disillusionment, and sacrifice into a story of political conspiracy and personal reckoning. Little noticed in England on its 1897 release, the book became enormously popular in Russia and later China, selling millions of copies. Free to read here as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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Ethel Voynich

Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960) was an Irish-born British novelist, translator, and composer with close ties to Russian and Italian revolutionary circles. A daughter of the mathematician George Boole, she is best remembered for The Gadfly, a novel that became a phenomenon in Eastern Europe and Asia.

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First published
1897
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
265
Language
English
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