Mr. Achilles

Achilles Goes to Chicago

Jennette Lee, Cordelia J. Winthrop

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486343704
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A Greek fruit-seller in Chicago, an heiress's child who goes missing, and a man everyone in the city has walked past a thousand times without seeing. Lee taught English at Smith College; her Uncle William was loved by a generation, and this 1912 novel does the same trick — the person nobody notices turns out to be the only one who is really paying attention. Fifty-seven plates by painters such as John Sloan and George Luks catch the same unnoticed city — barrooms, street markets, tenement corners — that Lee's fruit-seller walks through.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• I. Achilles Goes to Chicago
• II. A Butterfly Spreads Its Wings
• III. Betty’s Mother Hears a Story
• IV. And Achilles Dreams
• V. The Greek Professor Laughs
• VI. Achilles Calls on Betty Harris
• VII. To Meet the “Halcyon Club”
• VIII. And Give a Simple Lecture
• IX. Betty Leaves Her Gods
• X. For a Long Drive
• XI. Two Men Face Each Other
• XII. The Telephone Speaks
• XIII. Everyone Must Pay
• XIV. The Price Achilles Paid
• XV. The Police Move
• XVI. A Clue Goes to Sleep
• XVII. Philip Harris Wakes Up
• XVIII. “Once—I—Saw—”
• XIX. A Woman in the Garden
• XX. The Test Is Made
• XXI. A Connoisseur Speaks
• XXII. “What Did You See?”
• XXIII. Achilles Has a Plan
• XXIV. It Floats a Little
• XXV. And Starts Off
• XXVI. And Races for the Clue
• XXVII. The Little White House
• XXVIII. Inside the Little House
• XXIX. Upstairs
• XXX. Asleep
• XXXI. A Butterfly Flight
• XXXII. And a Voice
• XXXIII. “Wake Up, Mrs. Seabury!”
• XXXIV. The Flight of Stars
• XXXV. And Clanging Cars
• XXXVI. The Telephone Again
• XXXVII. The Big Bed
• About the Author