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Fiction

The Real Adventure

Henry Kitchell Webster

Reading time
about 15 h
Length
203,625 words · 466 pages in print
Structure
48 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Modern

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Contents

  1. Note
  2. Book One — The Great Illusion
  3. Chapter I — A Point of Departure
  4. Chapter II — Beginning an Adventure
  5. Chapter III — Frederica’s Plan and What Happened to It
  6. Chapter IV — Rosalind Stanton Doesn’t Disappear
  7. Chapter V — The Second Encounter
  8. Chapter VI — The Big Horse
  9. Chapter VII — How It Struck Portia
  10. Chapter VIII — Rodney’s Experiment
  11. Chapter IX — After Breakfast
  12. Book Two — Love and the World
  13. Chapter I — The Princess Cinderella
  14. Chapter II — The First Question and an Answer to It
  15. Chapter III — Where Did Rose Come in
  16. Chapter IV — Long Circuits and Short
  17. Chapter V — Rodney Smiled
  18. Chapter VI — The Damascus Road
  19. Chapter VII — How the Pattern Was Cut
  20. Chapter VIII — A Birthday
  21. Chapter IX — A Defeat
  22. Chapter X — The Door That Was to Open
  23. Chapter XI — An Illustration
  24. Chapter XII — What Harriet Did
  25. Chapter XIII — Fate Plays a Joke
  26. Chapter XIV — The Dam Gives Way
  27. Chapter XV — The Only Remedy
  28. Chapter XVI — Rose Opens the Door
  29. Book Three — The World Alone
  30. Chapter I — The Length of a Thousand Yards
  31. Chapter II — The Evening and the Morning Were the First Day
  32. Chapter III — Rose Keeps the Path
  33. Chapter IV — The Girl with the Bad Voice
  34. Chapter V — Mrs. Goldsmith’s Taste
  35. Chapter VI — A Business Proposition
  36. Chapter VII — The End of a Fixed Idea
  37. Chapter VIII — Success—And a Recognition
  38. Chapter IX — The Man and the Director
  39. Chapter X — The Voice of the World
  40. Chapter XI — The Short Circuit Again
  41. Chapter XII — “I’m All Alone”
  42. Chapter XIII — Frederica’s Paradox
  43. Chapter XIV — The Miry Way
  44. Chapter XV — In Flight
  45. Chapter XVI — Anti-Climax
  46. Chapter XVII — The End of the Tour
  47. Chapter XVIII — The Conquest of Centropolis
  48. Book Four — The Real Adventure
  49. Chapter I — The Tune Changes
  50. Chapter II — A Broken Parallel
  51. Chapter III — Friends
  52. Chapter IV — Couleur-De-Rose
  53. Chapter V — The Beginning

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Henry Kitchell Webster

1875–1932 · Modern

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