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Fiction · 1901

The Gathering of Brother Hilarius

Michael Fairless

Reading time
about 2 h
Length
27,346 words · 110 pages
Structure
18 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

The Gathering of Brother Hilarius, first published in 1901, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Note
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter I — Blind Eyes in the Forest
  4. Chapter II — The Love of Prior Stephen
  5. Chapter III — The King’s Song-Bird
  6. Chapter I — The City of Pure Gold
  7. Chapter II — The City That Hilarius Saw
  8. Chapter III — A Sending from the Lord
  9. Chapter IV — Blind Eyes Which Could See
  10. Chapter V — The White Way and Where It Led
  11. Chapter VI — A Dark Finding
  12. Chapter VII — The Coming of Hunger and Love
  13. Chapter I — How Long, o Lord, How Long!
  14. Chapter II — Mary’s Lilies
  15. Chapter III — Open Eyes at the Gate
  16. Chapter IV — The Passing of Prior Stephen
  17. Chapter V — “Gabriel, Make This Man to Understand the Vision.”—Dan. VIII. 16
  18. Chapter VI — The Hunger of Dickon the Woodman
  19. Chapter VII — The Vision of the Evening and the Morning
  20. Chapter VIII — “Behold the Fields Are White”

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Michael Fairless

1869–1901 · Victorian

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