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Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story

H. G. Wells

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 283 pages

Ann Veronica is a novel by H. G. Wells about a young woman in early 20th-century England who defies her father to pursue independence and education. It is a story of social change and personal awakening, offering a vivid portrait of a woman's struggle for freedom.

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ANN VERONICA
A MODERN LOVE STORY
By H. G. Wells
“The
art
of
ignoring
is
one
of
the
accomplishments of every
well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at
last she can
even ignore her own thoughts and her own
knowledge.”
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER THE NINTH
CHAPTER THE TENTH
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
Part 1
One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica
Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn
excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her
father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of
such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely
she made it. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost
glad it had been reached. She made up her mind in the
train home that it should be a decisive crisis. It is for
that reason that this novel begins with her there, and

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  1. ANN VERONICA
  2. ANN VERONICA

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