LUD-IN-THE-MIST

HOPE MIRRLEES

Lud-in-the-Mist (1926) is the third and final novel by British writer Hope Mirrlees. It continues the authors exploration of the themes of Life and Art, by a method already described in the preface of her first novel, Madeleine: One of Loves Jansenists (1919): "to turn from time to time upon the action the fantastic limelight of eternity, with a sudden effect of unreality and the hint of a world within a world".

Table of contents

• CHAPTER I MASTER NATHANIEL CHANTICLEER
• CHAPTER II THE DUKE WHO LAUGHED HIMSELF OFF A THRONE AND OTHER TRADITIONS OF DORIMARE
• CHAPTER III THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLE
• CHAPTER IV ENDYMION LEER PRESCRIBES FOR RANULPH
• CHAPTER V RANULPH GOES TO THE WIDOW GIBBERTY'S FARM
• CHAPTER VI THE WIND IN THE CRABAPPLE BLOSSOMS
• CHAPTER VII MASTER AMBROSE CHASES A WILD GOOSE AND HAS A VISION
• CHAPTER VIII ENDYMION LEER LOOKS FRIGHTENED, AND A BREACH IS MADE IN AN OLD FRIENDSHIP
• CHAPTER IX PANIC AND THE SILENT PEOPLE
• CHAPTER X HEMPIE'S SONG
• CHAPTER XI A STRONGER ANTIDOTE THAN REASON
• CHAPTER XII DAME MARIGOLD HEARS THE TAP OF A WOODPECKER
• CHAPTER XIII WHAT MASTER NATHANIEL AND MASTER AMBROSE FOUND IN THE GUILDHALL
• CHAPTER XIV DEAD IN THE EYE OF THE LAW
• CHAPTER XV “HO, HO, HOH!”
• CHAPTER XVI THE WIDOW GIBBERTY'S TRIAL
• CHAPTER XVII THE WORLD-IN-LAW
• CHAPTER XVIII MISTRESS IVY PEPPERCORN
• CHAPTER XIX THE BERRIES OF MERCIFUL DEATH
• CHAPTER XX WATCHING THE COWS
• CHAPTER XXI THE OLD GOATHERD
• CHAPTER XXII WHO IS PORTUNUS?
• CHAPTER XXIII THE NORTHERN FIRE-BOX AND DEAD MEN'S TALES
• CHAPTER XXIV BELLING THE CAT
• CHAPTER XXV THE LAW CROUCHES AND SPRINGS
• CHAPTER XXVI “NEITHER TREES NOR MEN”
• CHAPTER XXVII THE FAIR IN THE ELFIN MARCHES
• CHAPTER XXVIII “BY THE SUN, MOON AND STARS AND THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE WEST”
• CHAPTER XXIX A MESSAGE COMES TO HAZEL AND THE FIRST SWALLOW TO DAME MARIGOLD
• CHAPTER XXX MASTER AMBROSE KEEPS HIS VOW
• CHAPTER XXXI THE INITIATE
• CHAPTER XXXII CONCLUSION