Refugees
eBook - ePub

Refugees

A Tale of Two Continents

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  1. 421 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Refugees

A Tale of Two Continents

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About this book

If you are under the impression that Arthur Conan Doyle's sole literary output consisted of short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, The Refugees will change your opinion. This sprawling historical epic veers from France to North America and back again, chronicling the parallel struggles of the persecuted Huguenots and the oppressed indigenous tribes of Canada.

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Table of contents

  1. THE REFUGEES
  2. Contents
  3. PART I - IN THE OLD WORLD
  4. Chapter I - The Man from America
  5. Chapter II - A Monarch in Deshabille
  6. Chapter III - The Holding of the Door
  7. Chapter IV - The Father of His People
  8. Chapter V - Children of Belial
  9. Chapter VI - A House of Strife
  10. Chapter VII - The New World and the Old
  11. Chapter VIII - The Rising Sun
  12. Chapter IX - Le Roi S'Amuse
  13. Chapter X - An Eclipse at Versailles
  14. Chapter XI - The Sun Reappears
  15. Chapter XII - The King Receives
  16. Chapter XIII - The King Has Ideas
  17. Chapter XIV - The Last Card
  18. Chapter XV - The Midnight Mission
  19. Chapter XVI - "When the Devil Drives"
  20. Chapter XVII - The Dungeon of Portillac
  21. Chapter XVIII - A Night of Surprises
  22. Chapter XIX - In the King's Cabinet
  23. Chapter XX - The Two Francoises
  24. Chapter XXI - The Man in the Caleche
  25. Chapter XXII - The Scaffold of Portillac
  26. Chapter XXIII - The Fall of the Catinats
  27. PART II - IN THE NEW WORLD
  28. Chapter XXIV - The Start of the "Golden Rod"
  29. Chapter XXV - A Boat of the Dead
  30. Chapter XXVI - The Last Port
  31. Chapter XXVII - A Dwindling Island
  32. Chapter XXVIII - In the Pool of Quebec
  33. Chapter XXIX - The Voice at the Port-Hole
  34. Chapter XXX - The Inland Waters
  35. Chapter XXXI - The Hairless Man
  36. Chapter XXXII - The Lord of Sainte Marie
  37. Chapter XXXIII - The Slaying of Brown Moose
  38. Chapter XXXIV - The Men of Blood
  39. Chapter XXXV - The Tapping of Death
  40. Chapter XXXVI - The Taking of the Stockade
  41. Chapter XXXVII - The Coming of the Friar
  42. Chapter XXXVIII - The Dining Hall of Sainte Marie
  43. Chapter XXXIX - The Two Swimmers
  44. Chapter XL - The End
  45. Note on the Huguenots and Their Dispersion
  46. Note on the Future of Louis, Madams de Maintenon, and Madame de Montespan