The Blockade of Phalsburg
by Erckmann-Chatrian
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About this eBook
- Author
- Erckmann-Chatrian
- Title
- The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
- Subject
- Phalsbourg (France) -- Siege, 1814 -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 36858
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36858
- Release Date
- July 26, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ALL WERE DEAD, AS IT WERE ONE LONG CEMETERY. — All were dead, as it were one long cemetery . . . . . Frontispiece — " Be so good as to come in, Mr. Sergeant " — I shuddered in my very soul and my hair bristled — Winter took him by the collar, and said: " I have you now! " — The sortie from the Tile-kiln — INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- 2.THE BLOCKADE: — AN EPISODE OF — THE END OF THE EMPIRE — I — FATHER MOSES AND HIS FAMILY — II — FATHER MOSES'S SPECULATION — III — A CIRCUMCISION FEAST — IV — FATHER MOSES COMPELLED TO BEAR ARMS — V — FATHER MOSES RECEIVES WELCOME NEWS — VI — A DISAGREEABLE GUEST — "BE SO GOOD AS TO COME IN, MR. SERGEANT." — VII — SERGEANT TRUBERT IN A NEW LIGHT — VIII — FATHER MOSES'S FIRST ENCOUNTER — IX — APPROACH OF THE ENEMY — X — AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COSSACKS — I SHUDDERED IN MY VERY SOUL AND MY HAIR BRISTLED. — XI — FATHER MOSES RETURNS IN TRIUMPH — XII — THE ENEMY REPULSED — XIII — A DESERTER CAPTURED — WINTER TOOK HIM BY THE COLLAR, AND SAID: "I HAVE YOU NOW!" — XIV — BURGUET'S VISIT TO THE DESERTER — XV — TRIAL OF THE DESERTER — XVI — A SORTIE OF THE GARRISON — THE SORTIE FROM THE LIME-KILN. — XVII — FAMINE AND FEVER — XVIII — DEATH OF LITTLE DAVID — XIX — THE PASSOVER — XX — PEACE — XXI
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