Fiction · 1902
Paul Kelver
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Contents
- Note
- Prologue
- Chapter I — Paul, Arrived in a Strange Land, Learns Many Things, and Goes to Meet the Man in Grey
- Chapter II — In Which Paul Makes Acquaintance of the Man with the Ugly Mouth
- Chapter III — How Good Luck Knocked at the Door of the Man in Grey
- Chapter IV — Paul, Falling in with a Goodly Company of Pilgrims, Learns of Them the Road That He Must Travel. And Meets the Princess of the Golden Locks
- Chapter V — In Which There Comes by One Bent Upon Pursuing His Own Way
- Chapter VI — Of the Shadow That Came Between the Man in Grey and the Lady of the Love-Lit Eyes
- Chapter VII — Of the Passing of the Shadow
- Chapter VIII — How the Man in Grey Made Ready for His Going
- Chapter IX — Of the Fashioning of Paul
- Chapter X — In Which Paul Is Shipwrecked, and Cast Into Deep Waters
- Book II
- Chapter I — Describes the Desert Island to Which Paul Was Drifted
- Chapter II — Paul, Escaping from His Solitude, Falls Into Strange Company. And Becomes Captive to One of Haughty Mien
- Chapter III — Good Friends Show Paul the Road to Freedom. But Before Setting Out, He Will Go a-Visiting
- Chapter IV — Leads to a Meeting
- Chapter V — How on a Sweet Grey Morning the Future Came to Paul
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII — How Paul Set Forth Upon a Quest
- Chapter VIII — And How Came Back Again
- Chapter IX — The Princess of the Golden Locks Sends Paul a Ring
- Chapter X — Paul Finds His Way
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About the author
1859–1927 · Victorian
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) was born in Walsall, left school at fourteen, and worked as a railway clerk, actor, teacher and journalist before Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Three Men in a Boat (1889) made him famous. He edited the magazines The Idler and To-Day, wrote plays (The Passing of the Third Floor Back, 1908) and a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel (1900).
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