Boy With Wings

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781776586394
• Edition: 0

British author Berta Ruck offers up an imaginative take on the ancient myth of Icarus. Set in the months before World War I broke out, The Boy With Wings follows the course of an improbable romance that blossoms just as the world begins to fall apart.

Table of contents

• THE BOY WITH WINGS
• Contents
• PART I - MAY, JUNE, JULY, 1914
• Chapter I - Aerial Light Horse
• Chapter II - The Bosom-Chums
• Chapter III - The Eyes of Icarus
• Chapter IV - The Song of All the Ages
• Chapter V - The Workaday World
• Chapter VI - The Invitation
• Chapter VII - A Bachelor's Tea-Party
• Chapter VIII - Laughing Odds
• Chapter IX - A Day in the Country
• Chapter X - Leslie, on "the Roots of the Rose"
• Chapter XI - The Heels of Mercury
• Chapter XII - The Kiss Withheld
• Chapter XIII - The Flying Dream
• Chapter XIV - An Awakening
• Chapter XV - Leslie on "Too Much Love"
• Chapter XVI - The Aeroplane Lady
• Chapter XVII - Leslie on "Marriage"
• Chapter XVIII - The Obvious Thing
• Chapter XIX - The Sealed Box
• PART II - JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, 1914
• Chapter I - The Aviation Dinner
• Chapter II - The "Whisper of War"
• Chapter III - The Last Sunday of Peace
• Chapter IV - That Week-End
• Chapter V - The Die is Cast
• Chapter VI - Her Guardian's Consent
• Chapter VII - Haste to the Wedding!
• Chapter VIII - The Girl He Left Behind Him
• Chapter IX - This Side of "the Front"
• Chapter X - Leslie, on "the Motley of Mars"
• Chapter XI - A Love Letter—And a Rose
• PART III - SEPTEMBER, NINETEEN-FOURTEEN
• Chapter I - A War-Time Honeymoon
• Chapter II - The Soul of Undine
• Chapter III - A Last Favour
• Chapter IV - The Departure for France
• Chapter V - The Nuptial Flight
• Chapter VI - The Winged Victory
• Postscript
• Endnotes