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Erema; Or, My Father's Sin

by R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900)

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  • 58 chapters
  • Reading level: 6th grade

"Erema; Or, My Father's Sin" by R. D. Blackmore is a novel published in 1877. Narrated by fifteen-year-old Erema, the story follows a girl who has grown up in exile with her father in 1850s California. Her father fled England after being wrongly accused of murdering his own father. When he dies, leaving Erema alone, she becomes determined to return to England and clear his name, uncovering the truth behind the crime that destroyed her family.

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  • Young women
  • Fathers and daughters
  • California · History · 19th century

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Chapter I

A LOST LANDMARK

“The sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”

These are the words that have followed me always. This is the curse which has fallen on my life.

If I had not known my father, if I had not loved him, if I had not closed his eyes in desert silence deeper than the silence of the grave, even if I could have buried and bewailed him duly, the common business of this world and the universal carelessness might have led me down the general track that leads to nothing.

Until my father fell and died I never dreamed that he could die. I knew that his mind was quite made up to see me safe in my new home, and then himself to start again for still remoter solitudes. And when his mind was thus made up, who had ever known him fail of it?

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Contents

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  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV: The “King of the Mountains.”
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII
  9. Chapter IX
  10. Chapter X
  11. Chapter XI
  12. Chapter XII
  13. Chapter XIII
  14. Chapter XIV
  15. Chapter XV
  16. Chapter XVI
  17. Chapter XVII
  18. Chapter XVIII
  19. Chapter XIX
  20. Chapter XX
  21. Chapter XXI
  22. Chapter XXII
  23. Chapter XXIII
  24. Chapter XXIV: Betsy's Tale — (Continued.)
  25. Chapter XXV: Betsy's Tale — (Concluded.)
  26. Chapter XXVI
  27. Chapter XXVII
  28. Chapter XXVIII
  29. Chapter XXIX
  30. Chapter XXX
  31. Chapter XXXI
  32. Chapter XXXII
  33. Chapter XXXIII
  34. Chapter XXXIV
  35. Chapter XXXV
  36. Chapter XXXVI
  37. Chapter XXXVII
  38. Chapter XXXVIII
  39. Chapter XXXIX
  40. Chapter XL
  41. Chapter XLI
  42. Chapter XLII
  43. Chapter XLIII
  44. Chapter XLIV
  45. Chapter XLV
  46. Chapter XLVI
  47. Chapter XLVII
  48. Chapter XLVIII
  49. Chapter XLIX
  50. Chapter L
  51. Chapter LI
  52. Chapter LII
  53. Chapter LIII
  54. Chapter LIV
  55. Chapter LV
  56. Chapter LVI
  57. Chapter LVII
  58. Chapter LVIII

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This free edition of Erema; Or, My Father's Sin by R. D. Blackmore comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #7112, released 2006-06-06. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Adventure, Novels, British Literature.

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