The Seeker

About this eBook

Author

Wilson, Harry Leon, 1867-1939

Credits

E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Project Gutenberg Beginners Projects,

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Fiction

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Text

eBook-No.

15797

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15797

Release Date

May 8, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE SEEKER — BY
2. 2.HARRY LEON WILSON — Author of "The Spenders" "The Lions of the Lord," Etc. — ILLUSTRATED BY ROSE CECIL O'NEILL — 1904
3. 3.BOOK ONE—The Age Of Fable
4. 4.BOOK TWO—The Age of Reason
5. 5.BOOK THREE—The Age of Faith
6. 6.SCENES
7. 7.CHARACTERS
8. 8.List of Illustrations — THE SEEKER — BOOK ONE—THE AGE OF FABLE
9. 9.CHAPTER I — How the Christmas Saint was Proved
10. 10.CHAPTER II — An Old Man Faces Two Ways
11. 11.CHAPTER III — The Cult of the Candy Cane
12. 12.CHAPTER IV — The Big House of Portents
13. 13.CHAPTER V — The Life of Crime is Appraised and Chosen
14. 14.CHAPTER VI — The Garden of Truth and the Perfect Father
15. 15.CHAPTER VII — The Superlative Cousin Bill J.
16. 16.CHAPTER VIII — Searching the Scriptures
17. 17.CHAPTER IX — On Surviving the Idols We Build
18. 18.CHAPTER X — The Passing of the Gratcher; and Another
19. 19.CHAPTER XI — The Strong Person's Narrative
20. 20.CHAPTER XII — A New Theory of a Certain Wicked Man — BOOK TWO—THE AGE OF REASON
21. 21.CHAPTER I — The Regrettable Dementia of a Convalescent
22. 22.CHAPTER II — Further Distressing Fantasies of a Clouded Mind
23. 23.CHAPTER III — Reason Is Again Enthroned
24. 24.CHAPTER IV — A Few Letters
25. 25.CHAPTER V — "Is the Hand of the Lord Waxed Short?"
26. 26.CHAPTER VI — In the Folly of His Youth — BOOK THREE—The Age of Faith
27. 27.CHAPTER I — The Perverse Behaviour of an Old Man and a Young Man
28. 28.CHAPTER II — How a Brother was Different
29. 29.CHAPTER III — How Edom was Favoured of God and Mammon
30. 30.CHAPTER IV — The Winning of Browett
31. 31.CHAPTER V — A Belated Martyrdom
32. 32.CHAPTER VI — The Walls of St. Antipas Fall at the Third Blast
33. 33.CHAPTER VII — There Entereth the Serpent of Inappreciation
34. 34.CHAPTER VIII — The Apple of Doubt Is Nibbled
35. 35.CHAPTER IX — Sinful Perverseness of the Natural Woman
36. 36.CHAPTER X — The Reason of a Woman Who Had No Reason
37. 37.CHAPTER XI — The Remorse of Wondering Nancy
38. 38.CHAPTER XII — The Flexible Mind of a Pleased Husband
39. 39.CHAPTER XIII — The Wheels within Wheels of the Great Machine
40. 40.CHAPTER XIV — The Ineffective Message
41. 41.CHAPTER XV — The Woman at the End of the Path
42. 42.CHAPTER XVI — In Which the Mirror is Held up to Human Nature
43. 43.CHAPTER XVII — For the Sake of Nancy
44. 44.CHAPTER XVIII — The Fell Finger of Calumny Seems to be Agreeably Diverted
45. 45.CHAPTER XIX — A Mere Bit of Gossip

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