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The Manuscript is Everhard's autobiography as she tells of: her privileged childhood as the daughter of an accomplished scientist ; her marriage to the socialist revolutionary Ernest Everhard ; the fall of the US republic ; and her years in the underground resistance from the First Revolt through the years leading to the Second Revolt.

By telling the story of Avis Everhard, the novel is essentially an adventurous tale heavily strewn with social commentary of an alternate future ( from a 1907 perspective ).

However, the future perspective of the scholar Meredith deepens the tragic plight of Everhard and her revolutionary comrades.