{"id":17910,"date":"2016-10-12T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T08:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=17910"},"modified":"2016-10-12T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T08:57:34","slug":"the-man-of-the-hour-by-octave-thanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/the-man-of-the-hour-by-octave-thanet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man of the Hour by Octave Thanet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Man of the Hour<\/em><\/h2>\n

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Octave Thanet<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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This story deals with the labor problem and with socialistic efforts to solve it. The hero of the tale is John Ivan Winslow, the only son of a Russian mother and an American father. As a child he is sensitive and impressionable and imbibes the nihilistic views of his mother who is strongly in sympathy with her oppressed people. Before her marriage Mrs. Winslow had been the Princess Olga Galitsuin and had met her husband when he was on a business trip to Russia. Not till after their marriage did Mr. Winslow discover his wife’s socialistic tendencies and these in connection with her impracticability and foreign ways caused unhappiness between them which led finally to their separation. <\/p>\n

This was a great source of sorrow to Johnny-Ivan, as our hero was called, and the departure of his beautiful mother across the sea and her subsequent death almost broke his heart. Mr. Winslow had married a second wife, who was a noble woman, but John-Ivan had steeled his heart against her; after his father’s death, which occurs after his leaving college, he is incensed at the division of the property. John-Ivan is left one hundred thousand dollars, while the rest of the large fortune goes to his stepmother, but this legacy is soon dissipated as he scatters it broadcast in his effort to aid suffering humanity. At the end of a year John-Ivan is penniless and seeks employment as a common workman in a factory. He sees life in all its phases, suffers many hardships, and meets with injuries and misfortunes.<\/p>\n

During this time his stepmother and his sweetheart, Peggy Rutherford, have been doing everything in their power to find him, but he has purposely hidden his identity. Peggy finally discovers his whereabouts and corresponds with him under the assumed name of Roger Mack, a boy he had once befriended. At length John-Ivan returns to his father’s factory in order to assist in suppressing a labor uprising and is shot and seriously wounded. Upon his recovery his stepmother gives him a letter written by his father before his death, telling him that the legacy was given him as an experiment and the whole fortune is to be his eventually. By this time John-Ivan has realized the futility of his socialistic efforts and is ready to begin life anew with the faithful Peggy as his helpmate. ~ Bartleby<\/p><\/div>\n

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