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Fiction

The History of Sir Richard Calmady

A Romance

Lucas Malet

Reading time
about 19 h
Length
263,203 words · 628 pages in print
Structure
64 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Note
  2. Chapter IV — Julius March Bears Testimony 203
  3. Chapter V — Iphigenia 350
  4. Chapter III — Concerning a Spirit in Prison 566
  5. Chapter VII — Wherein Two Enemies are Seen to Cry Quits 611
  6. Book I — The Clown
  7. Chapter I — Acquainting the Reader with a Fair Domain and the Maker Thereof
  8. Chapter II
  9. Chapter III — Touching Matters Clerical and Controversial
  10. Chapter IV — Raising Problems Which It Is the Purpose of This History to Resolve
  11. Chapter V — In Which Julius March Beholds the Vision of the New Life
  12. Chapter VI — Accident or Destiny, According to Your Humour
  13. Chapter VII — Mrs. William Ormiston Sacrifices a Wine-Glass to Fate
  14. Chapter VIII — Enter a Child of Promise
  15. Chapter IX — In Which Katherine Calmady Looks on Her Son
  16. Chapter X — The Birds of the Air Take Their Breakfast
  17. Book II — The Breaking of Dreams
  18. Chapter I — Recording Some Aspects of a Small Pilgrim’s Progress
  19. Chapter II — In Which Our Hero Improves His Acquaintance with Many Things—Himself Included
  20. Chapter III — Concerning That Which, Thank God, Happens Almost Every Day
  21. Chapter IV — Which Smells Very Vilely of the Stable
  22. Chapter V — In Which Dickie Is Introduced to a Little Dancer with Blush-Roses in Her Hat
  23. Chapter VI — Dealing with a Physician of the Body and a Physician of the Soul
  24. Chapter VII — An Attempt to Make the Best of It
  25. Chapter VIII — Telling, Incidentally, of a Broken-Down Postboy and a Country Fair
  26. Book III — La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  27. Chapter I — In Which Our Hero’s World Grows Sensibly Wider
  28. Chapter II — Telling How Dickie’s Soul Was Somewhat Sick, and How He Met Fair Women on the Confines of a Wood
  29. Chapter III — In Which Richard Confirms One Judgment and Reverses Another
  30. Chapter IV — Julius March Bears Testimony
  31. Chapter V — Telling How Queen Mary’s Crystal Ball Came to Fall on the Gallery Floor
  32. Chapter VI — In Which Dickie Tries to Ride Away from His Own Shadow, with Such Success as Might Have Been Anticipated
  33. Chapter VII — Wherein the Reader Is Courteously Invited to Improve His Acquaintance with Certain Persons of Quality
  34. Chapter VIII — Richard Puts His Hand to a Plough from Which There Is No Turning Back
  35. Chapter IX — Which Touches Incidentally on Matters of Finance
  36. Chapter X — Mr. Ludovic Quayle Among the Prophets
  37. Chapter XI — Containing Samples Both of Earthly and Heavenly Love
  38. Book IV — A Slip Betwixt Cup and Lip
  39. Chapter I — Lady Louisa Barking Traces the Finger of Providence
  40. Chapter II — Telling How Vanity Fair Made Acquaintance with Richard Calmady
  41. Chapter III — In Which Katherine Tries to Nail Up the Weatherglass to Set Fair
  42. Chapter IV — A Lesson Upon the Eleventh Commandment—“Parents Obey Your Children”
  43. Chapter V — Iphigenia
  44. Chapter VI — In Which Honoria St. Quentin Takes the Field
  45. Chapter VII — Recording the Astonishing Valour Displayed by a Certain Small Mouse in a Corner
  46. Chapter VIII — A Manifestation of the Spirit
  47. Chapter IX — In Which Dickie Shakes Hands with the Devil
  48. Book V — Rake’s Progress
  49. Chapter I — In Which the Reader Is Courteously Entreated to Grow Older by the Space of Some Four Years, and to Sail Southward Ho! Away
  50. Chapter II — Wherein Time Is Discovered to Have Worked Changes
  51. Chapter III — Helen de Vallorbes Apprehends Vexatious Complications
  52. Chapter IV — “Mater Admirabilis”
  53. Chapter V — Exit Camp
  54. Chapter VI — In Which M. Paul Destournelle Has the Bad Taste to Threaten to Upset the Apple-Cart
  55. Chapter VII — Splendide Mendax
  56. Chapter VIII — In Which Helen de Vallorbes Learns Her Rival’s Name
  57. Chapter IX — Concerning That Daughter of Cupid and Psyche Whom Men Call Voluptas
  58. Chapter X — The Abomination of Desolation
  59. Chapter XI
  60. Book VI — The New Heaven and the New Earth
  61. Chapter I — In Which Miss St. Quentin Bears Witness to the Faith That Is in Her
  62. Chapter II — Telling How, Once Again, Katherine Calmady Looked on Her Son
  63. Chapter III — Concerning a Spirit in Prison
  64. Chapter IV — Dealing with Matters of Hearsay and Matters of Sport
  65. Chapter V — Telling How Dickie Came to Untie a Certain Tag of Rusty, Black Ribbon
  66. Chapter VI — A Litany of the Sacred Heart
  67. Chapter VII — Wherein Two Enemies Are Seen to Cry Quits
  68. Chapter VIII — Concerning the Brotherhood Founded by Richard Calmady, and Other Matters of Some Interest
  69. Chapter IX — Telling How Ludovic Quayle and Honoria St. Quentin Watched the Trout Rise in the Long Water
  70. Chapter X — Concerning a Day of Honest Warfare and a Sunset Harbinger Not of the Night but of the Dawn
  71. Chapter XI — In Which Richard Calmady Bids the Long-Suffering Reader Farewell

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1852–1931 · Victorian

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