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100 1 _aPemberton, Max,
_d1863-1950
245 1 4 _aThe Garden of Swords
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2014-06-18
508 _aProduced by David Edwards, Fred Salzer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from images generously made available by The Internet Archive (http://archive.org).
520 _a"The Garden of Swords" by Max Pemberton is a novel written during the late 19th century. This work delves into the intersecting lives of characters in the backdrop of impending war, focusing on the lives of Beatrix, an English woman married to a French soldier, Edmond Lefort, and the emotional complexities they face amid the atmosphere of love and conflict leading up to the Franco-Prussian War. At the start of the novel, the story unfolds in Strasbourg, where the wedding of Edmond Lefort and Beatrix Hamilton is both a joyous occasion and a moment of poignant reflection for the old man Père Bonot, who recalls his own past. The vibrant social scene at the castle, filled with dignitaries from the military and local townspeople, juxtaposes the narrator's insights into the characters' emotional states as they confront feelings of love and nostalgia. As the festivities unfold, an undercurrent of tension simmers regarding the imminent war, which looms over the lives of the newlyweds and the local populace, foreshadowing the drastic changes that are soon to come, setting the stage for the conflicts and emotional turmoil that will ensue. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFranco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 -- Fiction
700 1 _aWood, Stanley L.,
_d1866-1928
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46023
999 _c86862
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