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A young priest ecounters scandal and treachery, driving him to question his own calling.
While civil war threatens his Irish homeland, a young man with an unclear mission is ordained a priest and crusades against illiteracy and superstition in a colony of his expatriated countrymen. Driven to justify his ordination, he strives to solve the personal problems of his congregation and denies a growing attraction to a beautiful and precocious student. Confronted with scandal and treachery, he is compelled to question the authorities calling him to obedience: his God, his country, his church, his conscience, and his heart. Which of these authorities constitutes the holiest of orders? | |  | | Stalemate
An epic tale of international crime and suspense at the dawn of the 20th century, when ordinary people were confronted for the first time with electricity, telephones, telegrams, radios, automobiles, airplanes, and revolutionary advances in science and medicine.
The story chronicles the deadly ambitions and lusts of a French businessman who amasses a fortune in pursuit of power during the Industrial Revolution, and a police detective determined to stop him. An ongoing chess game is a metaphor of the spiraling tension between them as the stakes continue to rise.
Emile Gerrault lifted himself from lowly beginnings as a street beggar in Paris to become one of the wealthiest industrialists in Europe. His insatiable appetite for power over the events and people in his life wane when he is confronted with his own mortality and his ambitions are reduced to merely staying alive.
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Marcel was ready to test his machine and Emile alerted French newspapers to assure that the great feat would not be overlooked. A crowd gathered in the field and watched, as Marcel's monoplane lifted itself off the ground
The demonstration was only partly successful. Onlookers considered that it didn't fly–it hopped. Marcel argued that the test fieldwas too short. If it had been longer, his machine would have stayed airborne for a greater distance. He was eager to begin repair of the monoplane. He would make a few changes and test it again in a larger field. |
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