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The Primrose Path (Stoker novel)

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Country
  
Ireland

Publisher
  
The Shamrock

Originally published
  
1875

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1875

Author
  
Bram Stoker

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Media type
  
Print Periodical & (Hardback & Paperback)

Genres
  
Novel, Temperance movement

Similar
  
Bram Stoker books, Other books

The Primrose Path is an 1875 novel by Bram Stoker. It was the writer's first novel, published 22 years before Dracula and serialized in five installments in The Shamrock, a weekly Irish magazine, from February 6, 1875 to March 6, 1875.

Plot summary

Jerry O'Sullivan, honest Dublin theatrical carpenter, moves to London, seeking a better job. Against the better judgement of the people surrounding him, Jerry decides to go to the metropolis with his faithful wife Katey. O'Sullivan is hired as head carpenter in a squalid theatre in London, but after several misfortunes he is strongly tempted by and eventually brought down by alcohol. Unjustly suspecting his wife of infidelity, he murders her with a hammer and then cuts his throat with a chisel.

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The Primrose Path (Stoker novel) Wikipedia