Devereux — Volume 01

About this eBook

Author

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873

Credits

This eBook was produced by Dagny, and David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Great Britain -- History -- Anne, 1702-1714 -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

7624

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7624

Release Date

March 1, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DEVEREUX — ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION. — DEDICATORY EPISTLE — LONDON. — THE AUTOBIOGRAPHER'S INTRODUCTION. — NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION (1852). — CONTENTS. — Book I. — CHAPTER I. Of the Hero's Birth and Parentage.—Nothing can differ more from the End of Things than their Beginning — Book II. — CHAPTER I. The Hero in London.—Pleasure is often the shortest, as it is the earliest road to Wisdom, and we may say of the World what Zeal-of- the-Land-Busy says of the Pig-Booth, "We escape so much of the other Vanities by our early Entering" — Book III. — CHAPTER I. Wherein the History makes great Progress and is marked by one important Event in Human Life — Book IV. — CHAPTER I. A Re-entrance into Life through the Ebon Gate, Affliction — Book V. — CHAPTER I. A Portrait — Book VI. — CHAPTER I. The Retreat — CONCLUSION — DEVEREUX. — BOOK I. — CHAPTER I. — CHAPTER II. — CHAPTER III. — CHAPTER IV. — CHAPTER V. — CHAPTER VI. — CHAPTER VII. — CHAPTER VIII. — CHAPTER IX. — CHAPTER X. — CHAPTER XI. — CHAPTER XII. — CHAPTER XIII. — TO SIR WILLIAM DEVEREUX, KT. — CHAPTER XIV. — CHAPTER XV.

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