Devereux — Volume 01
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About This Book
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Chapters (34)
- DEVEREUX
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION.
- DEDICATORY EPISTLE
- LONDON.
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHER'S INTRODUCTION.
- NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION (1852).
- CONTENTS. Book I.
- CHAPTER I. Of the Hero's Birth and Parentage.—Nothing can differ more from the End of Things than their Beginning
- Book II.
- CHAPTER I. The Hero in London.—Pleasure is often the shortest, as it is the earliest road to Wisdom, and we may say of the World what Zeal-of- the-Land-Busy says of the Pig-Booth, "We escape so much of the other Vanities by our early Entering"
- Book III.
- CHAPTER I. Wherein the History makes great Progress and is marked by one important Event in Human Life
- Book IV.
- CHAPTER I. A Re-entrance into Life through the Ebon Gate, Affliction
- Book V.
- CHAPTER I. A Portrait
- Book VI.
- CHAPTER I. The Retreat
- CONCLUSION DEVEREUX. BOOK I. CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX.
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- TO SIR WILLIAM DEVEREUX, KT.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CHAPTER XV.
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