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Fiction · 1900

Alice of Old Vincennes

Maurice Thompson

Reading time
about 7.5 h
Length
106,027 words · 374 pages
Structure
23 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter I — Under the Cherry Tree
  3. Chapter II — A Letter from Afar
  4. Chapter III — The Rape of the Demijohn
  5. Chapter IV — The First Mayor of Vincennes
  6. Chapter V — Father Gibault
  7. Chapter VI — A Fencing Bout
  8. Chapter VII — The Mayor’s Party
  9. Chapter VIII — The Dilemma of Captain Helm
  10. Chapter IX — The Honors of War
  11. Chapter X — M. Roussillon Entertains Colonel Hamilton
  12. Chapter XI — A Sword and a Horse Pistol
  13. Chapter XII — Manon Lescaut. And a Rapier-Thrust
  14. Chapter XIII — A Meeting in the Wilderness
  15. Chapter XIV — A Prisoner of Love
  16. Chapter XV — Virtue in a Locket
  17. Chapter XVI — Father Beret’s Old Battle
  18. Chapter XVII — A March Through Cold Water
  19. Chapter XVIII — A Duel by Moonlight
  20. Chapter XIX — The Attack
  21. Chapter XX — Alice’s Flag
  22. Chapter XXI — Some Transactions in Scalps
  23. Chapter XXII — Clark Advises Alice
  24. Chapter XXIII — And So It Ended

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Maurice Thompson

1844–1901 · Victorian

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