Falkner Chapter 26

from The Mary Shelley Library · host Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In which a weary narrator, burdened by a secret guilt and the pangs of remorse, reflects upon the harsh discipline and bleak privations of his youth within a fractured family, yearning for kindness and freedom amid a world that seems arrayed against him. He is unexpectedly introduced to a gentle lady and a radiant young girl in a secluded cottage, igniting a faint but precious hope for compassion and belonging that has long been denied him.

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