Adrian Savage
by Lucas Malet
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About this eBook
- Author
- Malet, Lucas, 1852-1931
- Title
- Adrian Savage: A Novel
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Unrequited love -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 56577
- Release Date
- February 16, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Adrian Savage
- 2.I CONCERNING THE DEAD AND THE LIVING — CHAPTER I IN WHICH THE READER IS INVITED TO MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF THE HERO OF THIS BOOK — CHAPTER II WHEREIN A VERY MODERN YOUNG MAN TELLS A TIME-HONORED TALE WITH BUT SMALL ENCOURAGEMENT — CHAPTER III TELLING HOW RENÉ DAX COOKED A SAVORY OMELETTE, AND WHY GABRIELLE ST. LEGER LOOKED OUT OF AN OPEN WINDOW AT PAST MIDNIGHT — CHAPTER IV CLIMBING THE LADDER — CHAPTER V PASSAGES FROM JOANNA SMYRTHWAITE'S LOCKED BOOK — CHAPTER VI SOME CONSEQUENCES OF PUTTING NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES — CHAPTER VII IN WHICH ADRIAN HELPS TO THROW EARTH INTO AN OPEN GRAVE — CHAPTER VIII A MODERN ANTIGONE
- 3.II THE DRAWINGS UPON THE WALL — CHAPTER I A WASTER — CHAPTER II THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE — CHAPTER III A STRAINING OF FRIENDSHIP — CHAPTER IV IN WHICH ADRIAN SETS FORTH IN PURSUIT OF THE FURTHER REASON — CHAPTER V WITH DEBORAH, UNDER AN OAK IN THE PARC MONCEAU — CHAPTER VI RECORDING THE VIGIL OF A SCARLET HOMUNCULUS AND ARISTIDES THE JUST
- 4.III THE OTHER SIDE — CHAPTER I RECORDING A BRAVE MAN'S EFFORT TO CULTIVATE HIS PRIVATE GARDEN — CHAPTER II A STRATEGIC MOVEMENT WHICH SECURES VICTORY WHILE SIMULATING RETREAT — CHAPTER III IN WHICH EUTERPE IS CALLED UPON TO PLAY THE PART OF INTERPRETER — CHAPTER IV SOME PASSAGES FROM JOANNA SYMRTHWAITE'S LOCKED BOOK — CHAPTER V IN WHICH ADRIAN'S KNOWLEDGE OF SOME INHABITANTS OF THE TOWER HOUSE IS SENSIBLY INCREASED — CHAPTER VI WHICH PLAYS SEESAW BETWEEN A GAME OF LAWN-TENNIS AND A PRODIGAL SON — CHAPTER VII PISTOLS OR POLITENESS—FOR TWO — CHAPTER VIII "NUIT DE MAI"
- 5.IV THE FOLLY OF THE WISE — CHAPTER I RE-ENTER A WAYFARING GOSSIP — CHAPTER II IN THE TRACK OF THE BRAIN-STORM — CHAPTER III IN WHICH THE STORM BREAKS — CHAPTER IV ON THE HEIGHTS — CHAPTER V DE PROFUNDIS
- 6.V THE LIVING AND THE DEAD — CHAPTER I SOME PASSAGES FROM JOANNA SMYRTHWAITE's LOCKED BOOK — CHAPTER II RECORDING A SISTERLY EFFORT TO LET IN LIGHT — CHAPTER III IN WHICH JOANNA EMBRACES A PHANTOM BLISS — CHAPTER IV "COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS" — CHAPTER V IN WHICH ADRIAN MAKES DISQUIETING ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE LONG ARM OF COINCIDENCE — CHAPTER VI CONCERNING A CURSE, AND THE MANNER OF ITS GOING HOME TO ROOST — CHAPTER VII SOME PASSAGES FROM JOANNA SMYRTHWAITE'S LOCKED BOOK — CHAPTER VIII IN WHICH A STRONG MAN ADOPTS A VERY SIMPLE METHOD OF CLEARING HIS OWN PATH OF THORNS — CHAPTER IX WHEREIN ADRIAN SAVAGE SUCCEEDS IN AWAKENING LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT
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