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Fiction

The Amazing Marriage

George Meredith

Reading time
about 11.5 h
Length
158,241 words · 370 pages in print
Structure
47 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Book 1
  2. Book 3
  3. Chapter I — Enter Dame Gossip as Chorus
  4. Chapter II — Mistress Gossip Tells of the Elopement of the Countess of Cressett with the Old Buccaneer, and of Charles Dump the Postillion Conducting Them, and of a Great County Family
  5. Chapter III — Continuation of the Introductory Meanderings of Dame Gossip, Together with Her Sudden Extinction
  6. Chapter IV — Morning and Farewell to an Old Home
  7. Chapter V — A Mountain Walk in Mist and Sunshine
  8. Chapter VI — The Natural Philosopher
  9. Chapter VII — The Lady’s Letter
  10. Chapter VIII — Of the Encounter of Two Strange Young Men and Their Consorting: In Which the Male Reader Is Requested to Bear in Mind What Wild Creature He Was in His Youth, While the Female Should Marvel Credulously
  11. Chapter IX — Concerning the Black Goddess Fortune and the Worship of Her, Together with an Introduction of Some of Her Votaries
  12. Chapter X — Small Causes
  13. Chapter XI — The Prisoner of His Word
  14. Chapter XII — Henrietta’s Letter Treating of the Great Event
  15. Chapter XIII — An Irruption. Of Mistress Gossip in Breach of the Convention
  16. Chapter XIV — A Pendant of the Foregoing
  17. Chapter XV — Opening Stage of the Honeymoon
  18. Chapter XVI — In Which the Bride from Foreign Parts Is Given a Taste of Old England
  19. Chapter XVII — Records a Shadow Contest Close on the Foregoing
  20. Chapter XVIII — Down Whitechapel Way
  21. Chapter XIX — The Girl Madge
  22. Chapter XX — Studies in Fog, Gout, an Old Seaman, a Lovely Serpent, and the Moral Effects That May Come of a Borrowed Shirt
  23. Chapter XXI — In Which We Have Further Glimpses of the Wondrous Mechanism of Our Younger Man
  24. Chapter XXII — A Right-Minded Great Lady
  25. Chapter XXIII — In Dame Gossip’s Vein
  26. Chapter XXIV — A Kidnapping and No Great Harm
  27. Chapter XXV — The Philosopher Man of Action
  28. Chapter XXVI — After Some Fencing the Dame Passes Our Guard
  29. Chapter XXVII — We Descend Into a Steamer’s Engine-Room
  30. Chapter XXVIII — By Concessions to Mistress Gossip a Further Intrusion Is Averted
  31. Chapter XXIX — Carinthia in Wales
  32. Chapter XXX — Rebecca Wythan
  33. Chapter XXXI
  34. Chapter XXXII — In Which We See Carinthia Put in Practice One of Her Old Father’s Lessons
  35. Chapter XXXIII — A Frightful Debate
  36. Chapter XXXIV — A Survey of the Ride of the Welsh Cavaliers Escorting the Countess of Fleetwood to Kentish Esslemont
  37. Chapter XXXV — In Which Certain Changes May Be Discerned
  38. Chapter XXXVI — Below the Surface and Above
  39. Chapter XXXVII — Between Carinthia and Her Lord
  40. Chapter XXXVIII — A Dip Into the Spring’s Waters
  41. Chapter XXXIX — The Red Warning from a Son of Vapour
  42. Chapter XL — Record of Minor Incidents
  43. Chapter XLI — In Which the Fates Are Seen and a Choice of the Refuges from Them
  44. Chapter XLII — The Retarded Courtship
  45. Chapter XLIII — On the Road to the Act of Penance
  46. Chapter XLIV — Between the Earl, the Countess and Her Brother, and of a Silver Cross
  47. Chapter XLV — Contains a Record of What Was Feared, What Was Hoped, and What Happened
  48. Chapter XLVI — A Chapter of Undercurrents and Some Surface Flashes
  49. Chapter XLVII — The Last: With a Concluding Word by the Dame

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George Meredith

1828–1909 · Victorian

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