Sheppard Lee

About this eBook

Author

Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806-1854

Title

Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Credits

Produced by Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the University of Virginia Library)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American fiction -- 19th century

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46622

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46622

Release Date

August 19, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SHEPPARD LEE.
2. 2.WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. — IN TWO VOLUMES. — VOL. II — CONTENTS — SHEPPARD LEE. — BOOK IV (continued) — CONTAINING ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOLLY OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN — THE MISER'S CHILDREN. — THE FATE OF THE FIRSTBORN. — THE CATASTROPHE OF A TRAGEDY OFTEN PERFORMED ON THE GREAT STAGE OF LIFE. — IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT A MAN MAY BE MORE USEFUL AFTER DEATH THAN WHILE LIVING. — SHEPPARD LEE'S SEARCH FOR A BODY.—AN UNCOMMON INCIDENT. — IN WHICH THE AUTHOR MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF A PHILANTHROPIST. — CONTAINING AN AFFECTING ADVENTURE WITH A VICTIM OF THE LAW. — IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS, AND THE TRAGEDY GROWS DEEPER. — CONTAINING THE ADVENTURES OF A GOOD SAMARITAN. — THE PHILANTHROPIST'S FAMILY. — SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WORTHY ABEL SNIPE. — IN WHICH THE YOUNG MAN JONATHAN ARGUES SEVERAL CASES OF CONSCIENCE, WHICH ARE RECOMMENDED TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE YEARLY MEETING. — CONTAINING LITTLE OR NOTHING SAVE APOSTROPHES, EXHORTATIONS, AND QUARRELS. — WHICH IS SHORT AND MORAL, AND CAN THEREFORE BE SKIPPED. — AN INCONVENIENCE OF BEING IN ANOTHER MAN'S BODY, WHEN CALLED UPON TO GIVE EVIDENCE AS TO ONE'S OWN EXIT. — THE SORROWS OF A PHILANTHROPIST. — THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. — CONTAINING A DIFFICULTY. — IN WHAT MANNER MR. ZACHARIAH LONGSTRAW DETERMINED TO IMPROVE HIS FORTUNE. — IN WHICH A CATASTROPHE BEGINS. — IN WHICH THE CATASTROPHE IS CONTINUED. — THE DÉNOUEMENT OF THE DRAMA. — A REMARK, IN WHICH THE AUTHOR APPEARS AS A POLITICIAN, AND ABUSES BOTH PARTIES. — AN UNCOMMON ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE AUTHOR. — IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE TAKES A JOURNEY, AND DISCOVERS THE SECRET OBJECT OF HIS CAPTORS. — CONTAINING OTHER SECRETS, BUT NOT SO IMPORTANT. — IN WHICH THE AUTHOR APPROACHES A CLIMAX IN HIS ADVENTURES. — CONTAINING A SPECIMEN OF ELOQUENCE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DANGERS OF LYNCHDOM. — IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE REACHES THE DARKEST PERIOD OF HIS EXISTENCE. — CONTAINING A HISTORY AND A MORAL. — IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE FINDS EVERY THING BLACK ABOUT HIM. — IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS INTRODUCED TO HIS MASTER. — AN OLD WOMAN'S CURE FOR A DISEASE EXTREMELY PREVALENT BOTH IN THE COLOURED AND UNCOLOURED CREATION. — SOME ACCOUNT OF RIDGEWOOD HILL, AND THE AUTHOR'S OCCUPATIONS. — IN WHICH THE AUTHOR FURTHER DESCRIBES HIS SITUATION, AND PHILOSOPHIZES ON THE STATE OF SLAVERY. — RECOLLECTIONS OF SLAVERY. — A SCENE ON THE BANKS OF THE POTOMAC, WITH THE HUMOURS OF AN AFRICAN IMPROVISATORE. — THE AUTHOR DESCENDS AMONG THE SLAVES, AND SUDDENLY BECOMES A MAN OF FIGURE, AND AN INTERPRETER OF NEW DOCTRINES. — WHAT IT WAS THE NEGROES HAD DISCOVERED AMONG THE SCANTLING. — THE EFFECT OF THE PAMPHLET ON ITS READER AND HEARERS. — THE HATCHING OF A CONSPIRACY. — HOW THE SPOILS OF VICTORY WERE INTENDED TO BE DIVIDED. — THE ATTACK OF THE INSURGENTS UPON THE MANSION AT RIDGEWOOD HILL. — THE TRAGICAL OCCURRENCES THAT FOLLOWED. — THE RESULTS OF THE INSURRECTION, WITH A TRULY STRANGE AND FATAL CATASTROPHE THAT BEFELL THE AUTHOR. — IN WHICH IT IS RELATED WHAT BECAME OF THE AUTHOR AFTER BEING HANGED. — WHICH IS INTENDED AS A PENDANT TO BOOK I., AND CONTAINS THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF FORTUNE. — CONTAINING AN INKLING OF THE LIFE AND HABITS OF MR. ARTHUR MEGRIM. — THE HAPPY CONDITION IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS AT LAST PLACED. — THE EMPLOYMENTS OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF FORTUNE. — SOME ACCOUNT OF THE INCONVENIENCES OF HAVING A DIGESTIVE APPARATUS. — THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL SURPRISING TRANSFORMATIONS. — AN ACCOUNT OF THE WOES OF AN EMPEROR OF FRANCE, WHICH HAVE NEVER BEFORE APPEARED IN HISTORY. — IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS CONVINCED THAT ALL IS NOT GOLD WHICH GLISTENS. — IN WHICH THE AUTHOR STUMBLES UPON AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE. — CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES OF THE GERMAN DOCTOR. — CONTAINING A MORE WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ON THE PART OF SHEPPARD LEE, WITH PERHAPS THE MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURE THAT EVER BEFELL HIM. — CONTAINING THE CONCLUSION OF THE HISTORY. — SHEPPARD LEE FLIES FROM THE GERMAN DOCTOR, AND FINDS HIMSELF AGAIN IN NEW-JERSEY. — WHAT HAD HAPPENED AT WATERMELON HILL DURING THE AUTHOR'S ABSENCE. — CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF A SINGULAR DEBATE BETWIXT THE AUTHOR AND HIS BROTHER, WITH A PHILOSOPHIC DEFENCE OF THE AUTHOR'S CREDIBILITY. — BEING THE LAST CHAPTER OF ALL.

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