Fiction · 1872
Under the Red Dragon
A Novel
Harry Hardinge, a young subaltern in the Welsh Fusileers convalescing from West Indies fever, is invited to Sir Madoc Lloyd's estate at Craigaderyn Court in North Wales, where he hopes to see Lady Estelle Cressingham — a woman of rank he loves but believes he can never afford to court. He arrives to find the mysterious Hawkesby Guilfoyle already at the house and already courting her, just as Hardinge's regiment awaits orders for the Crimea.
James Grant, the prolific Scottish soldier-novelist, first published Under the Red Dragon in three volumes through Tinsley Brothers in 1872.
Bibliomancer restores the 1872 text exactly as Grant wrote it.
Contents
- Chapter I — The Invitation
- Chapter II — The Moth and the Candle
- Chapter III — By Express
- Chapter IV — Winny and Dora Lloyd
- Chapter V — Craigaderyn Court
- Chapter VI — Three Graces
- Chapter VII — Pique
- Chapter VIII — Sunday at Craigaderyn
- Chapter IX — The Initials
- Chapter X — A Perilous Ramble
- Chapter XI — The Fête Champetre
- Chapter XII — On the Cliffs
- Chapter XIII — A Proposal
- Chapter XIV — The Unforeseen
- Chapter XV — What the Moon Saw
- Chapter XVI — The Secret Engagement
- Chapter XVII — What Followed It
- Chapter XVIII — Guilfoyle
- Chapter XIX — Two Loves for One Heart
- Chapter XX — Fears
- Chapter XXI — Georgette Franklin
- Chapter XXII — Georgette Franklin’s Story
- Chapter XXIII — Turning the Tables
- Chapter XXIV — Bitter Thoughts
- Chapter XXV — Surprises
- Chapter XXVI — Without Purchase
- Chapter XXVII — Reconciliation
- Chapter XXVIII — On Board the Urgent
- Chapter XXIX — “Ich Dien.”
- Chapter XXX — News of Battle
- Chapter XXXI — Under Canvas
- Chapter XXXII — In the Trenches
- Chapter XXXIII — The Flag of Truce
- Chapter XXXIV — Guilfoyle Redivivus
- Chapter XXXV — The Night Before Inkermann
- Chapter XXXVI — The Fifth of November
- Chapter XXXVII — The Angel of Horror
- Chapter XXXVIII — The Camp Again
- Chapter XXXIX — A Mail from England
- Chapter XL — A Perilous Duty
- Chapter XLI — The Caravanserai
- Chapter XLII — The Tchernimorski Cossacks
- Chapter XLIII — Winifred’s Secret
- Chapter XLIV — The Castle of Yalta
- Chapter XLV — Evil Tidings
- Chapter XLVI — Delilah
- Chapter XLVII — Valerie Volhonski
- Chapter XLVIII — The Threats of Tolstoff
- Chapter XLIX — Betrothed
- Chapter L — Caught at Last
- Chapter LI — Flight
- Chapter LII — Before Sebastopol Still
- Chapter LIII — News from Craigaderyn
- Chapter LIV — The Assault
- Chapter LV — Inside the Redan
- Chapter LVI — A Sunday Morning in the Crimea
- Chapter LVII — In the Monastery of St. George
- Chapter LVIII — Home
- Chapter LIX — “A Dream Which Was Not All a Dream.”
- Chapter LX — A Honeymoon
- Chapter LXI — “For Valour.”
- Footnotes
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1822–1887 · Victorian
James Grant (1822–1887) was born in Edinburgh, the son of an officer who had served with the 92nd Gordon Highlanders throughout the Peninsular War, and joined the army himself in 1839. He turned to writing after leaving the service and became one of the most prolific novelists of his generation, publishing some fifty-six novels in all — many of them, Under the Red Dragon among them, drawing on his own military background — alongside popular histories such as British Battles on Land and Sea and a six-volume Old and New Edinburgh. He died in London.
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