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100 1 _aLyall, Edna,
_d1857-1903
245 1 0 _aDonovan, Volume 3 (of 3)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-15
508 _aAl Haines
520 _a"Donovan, Volume 3 (of 3) by Edna Lyall is a novel written in the late 19th century. It is a concluding Victorian tale of conscience, love, and belief, tracing an agnostic young man’s moral and spiritual struggle amid affectionate ties and exacting duty. Centred on Donovan Farrant, an aspiring physician, and the Cornish Tremain family—especially Dr. Tremain and his daughter Gladys—the story weighs reason against faith and self-denial against desire. The opening of the novel follows Donovan in Porthkerran, where, feeling outside the church’s Harvest Festival, he speaks with Dr. Tremain about proof, faith, and patience, a talk that steadies but does not resolve his doubts. A tender letter and modest gift from his mother hearten him; later, after a peaceful family evening of music, he departs to pursue medicine. Returning the next summer, he and Gladys grow close, yet a reading from The Spanish Gypsy jolts him into recognising their love and the barrier his unbelief poses; he chooses painful renunciation, abruptly accepting an old friend’s invitation to the Isle of Wight and leaving. Gladys suffers quietly but steadies herself in duty; Donovan gains brief respite with his host, then back in London shares rooms with Stephen Causton, contends with jealousy and self-mastery, tries to pull Stephen from bad companions at a billiard hall (where he likely finds a blacksmith’s lost son), and, after a comic flare-up, resumes the grind of work—refusing renewed calls to return to Cornwall. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Hurst and Blackett, 1882
653 _aEngland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
653 _aReligious fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/donovannovel01lyal/mode/2up
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/donovannovel02lyal/mode/2up
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/donovannovel03lyal/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78458
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