The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

A History of a Father and Son

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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

A History of a Father and Son

About this book

A baronet raises his son by a system that leaves no room for accident, and the boy meets a farmer's niece on the river. Meredith published his first major novel in 1859 and the libraries banned it; the marriage in it is the one his own first marriage had not been. The comedy is at the father's expense until the last fifty pages, when it stops being comedy altogether. Fifty-three plates of painting from 1775 to 1900, among them works by Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable, give a portrait gallery of the English world the novel moves through.

Information

Publisher
Aeneas Press
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9785486685125
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. I
  4. II
  5. III
  6. IV
  7. V
  8. VI
  9. VII
  10. Chapter I. The Inmates of Raynham Abbey
  11. Chapter II. Showing How the Fates Selected the Fourteenth Birthday to Try the Strength of the System
  12. Chapter III. The Magian Conflict
  13. Chapter IV. Arson
  14. Chapter V. Adrian Plies His Hook
  15. Chapter VI. Juvenile Stratagems
  16. Chapter VII. Daphne’s Bower
  17. Chapter VIII. The Bitter Cup
  18. Chapter IX. A Fine Distinction
  19. Chapter X. Richard Passes Through His Preliminary Ordeal, and Is the Occasion of an Aphorism
  20. Chapter XI. In Which the Last Act of the Bakewell Comedy Is Closed in a Letter
  21. Chapter XII. The Blossoming Season
  22. Chapter XIII. The Magnetic Age
  23. Chapter XIV. An Attraction
  24. Chapter XV. Ferdinand and Miranda
  25. Chapter XVI. Unmasking of Master Ripton Thompson
  26. Chapter XVII. Good Wine and Good Blood
  27. Chapter XVIII. The System Encounters the Wild Oats Special Plea
  28. Chapter XIX. A Diversion Played on a Penny-Whistle
  29. Chapter XX. Celebrates the Time-Honoured Treatment of a Dragon by the Hero
  30. Chapter XXI. Richard Is Summoned to Town to Hear a Sermon
  31. Chapter XXII. Indicates the Approaches of Fever
  32. Chapter XXIII. Crisis in the Apple-Disease
  33. Chapter XXIV. Of the Spring Primrose and the Autumnal
  34. Chapter XXV. In Which the Hero Takes a Step
  35. Chapter XXVI. Records the Rapid Development of the Hero
  36. Chapter XXVII. Contains an Intercession for the Heroine
  37. Chapter XXVIII. Relates How Preparations for Action Were Conducted Under the April of Lovers
  38. Chapter XXIX. In Which the Last Act of a Comedy Takes the Place of the First
  39. Chapter XXX. Celebrates the Breakfast
  40. Chapter XXXI. The Philosopher Appears in Person
  41. Chapter XXXII. Procession of the Cake
  42. Chapter XXXIII. Nursing the Devil
  43. Chapter XXXIV. Conquest of an Epicure
  44. Chapter XXXV. Clare’s Marriage
  45. Chapter XXXVI. A Dinner-Party at Richmond
  46. Chapter XXXVII. Mrs. Berry on Matrimony
  47. Chapter XXXVIII. An Enchantress
  48. Chapter XXXIX. The Little Bird and the Falcon; a Berry to the Rescue!
  49. Chapter XL. Clare’s Diary
  50. Chapter XLI. Austin Returns
  51. Chapter XLII. Nature Speaks
  52. Chapter XLIII. Again the Magian Conflict
  53. Chapter XLIV. The Last Scene
  54. Chapter XLV. Lady Blandish to Austin Wentworth
  55. About the Author

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