Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2)
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Originally published in 1836.Sheppard Lee, Written By Himself is a work of dark satire from the early years of the American Republic. Published as an autobiography and praised by Edgar Allan Poe, this is the story of a young idler who goes in search of buried treasure and finds instead the power to transfer his soul into other men's bodies. What follows is one increasingly practiced body snatcher's picaresque journey through early American pursuits of happiness, as each new form Sheppard Lee assumes disappoints him anew while making him want more and more. When Lee's metempsychosis draws him i...
Chapters (68)
- SHEPPARD LEE.
- WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
- IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II
- CONTENTS
- SHEPPARD LEE.
- BOOK IV (continued) CONTAINING ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOLLY OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN
- THE MISER'S CHILDREN.
- THE FATE OF THE FIRSTBORN.
- THE CATASTROPHE OF A TRAGEDY OFTEN PERFORMED ON THE GREAT STAGE OF LIFE.
- IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT A MAN MAY BE MORE USEFUL AFTER DEATH THAN WHILE LIVING.
- SHEPPARD LEE'S SEARCH FOR A BODY.—AN UNCOMMON INCIDENT.
- IN WHICH THE AUTHOR MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF A PHILANTHROPIST.
- CONTAINING AN AFFECTING ADVENTURE WITH A VICTIM OF THE LAW.
- IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS, AND THE TRAGEDY GROWS DEEPER.
- CONTAINING THE ADVENTURES OF A GOOD SAMARITAN.
- THE PHILANTHROPIST'S FAMILY.
- SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WORTHY ABEL SNIPE.
- IN WHICH THE YOUNG MAN JONATHAN ARGUES SEVERAL CASES OF CONSCIENCE, WHICH ARE RECOMMENDED TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE YEARLY MEETING.
- CONTAINING LITTLE OR NOTHING SAVE APOSTROPHES, EXHORTATIONS, AND QUARRELS.
- WHICH IS SHORT AND MORAL, AND CAN THEREFORE BE SKIPPED.
- AN INCONVENIENCE OF BEING IN ANOTHER MAN'S BODY, WHEN CALLED UPON TO GIVE EVIDENCE AS TO ONE'S OWN EXIT.
- THE SORROWS OF A PHILANTHROPIST.
- THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
- CONTAINING A DIFFICULTY.
- IN WHAT MANNER MR. ZACHARIAH LONGSTRAW DETERMINED TO IMPROVE HIS FORTUNE.
- IN WHICH A CATASTROPHE BEGINS.
- IN WHICH THE CATASTROPHE IS CONTINUED.
- THE DÉNOUEMENT OF THE DRAMA.
- A REMARK, IN WHICH THE AUTHOR APPEARS AS A POLITICIAN, AND ABUSES BOTH PARTIES.
- AN UNCOMMON ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE AUTHOR.
- IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE TAKES A JOURNEY, AND DISCOVERS THE SECRET OBJECT OF HIS CAPTORS.
- CONTAINING OTHER SECRETS, BUT NOT SO IMPORTANT.
- IN WHICH THE AUTHOR APPROACHES A CLIMAX IN HIS ADVENTURES.
- CONTAINING A SPECIMEN OF ELOQUENCE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DANGERS OF LYNCHDOM.
- IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE REACHES THE DARKEST PERIOD OF HIS EXISTENCE.
- CONTAINING A HISTORY AND A MORAL.
- IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE FINDS EVERY THING BLACK ABOUT HIM.
- IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS INTRODUCED TO HIS MASTER.
- AN OLD WOMAN'S CURE FOR A DISEASE EXTREMELY PREVALENT BOTH IN THE COLOURED AND UNCOLOURED CREATION.
- SOME ACCOUNT OF RIDGEWOOD HILL, AND THE AUTHOR'S OCCUPATIONS.
- IN WHICH THE AUTHOR FURTHER DESCRIBES HIS SITUATION, AND PHILOSOPHIZES ON THE STATE OF SLAVERY.
- RECOLLECTIONS OF SLAVERY.
- A SCENE ON THE BANKS OF THE POTOMAC, WITH THE HUMOURS OF AN AFRICAN IMPROVISATORE.
- THE AUTHOR DESCENDS AMONG THE SLAVES, AND SUDDENLY BECOMES A MAN OF FIGURE, AND AN INTERPRETER OF NEW DOCTRINES.
- WHAT IT WAS THE NEGROES HAD DISCOVERED AMONG THE SCANTLING.
- THE EFFECT OF THE PAMPHLET ON ITS READER AND HEARERS.
- THE HATCHING OF A CONSPIRACY.
- HOW THE SPOILS OF VICTORY WERE INTENDED TO BE DIVIDED.
- THE ATTACK OF THE INSURGENTS UPON THE MANSION AT RIDGEWOOD HILL.
- THE TRAGICAL OCCURRENCES THAT FOLLOWED.
- THE RESULTS OF THE INSURRECTION, WITH A TRULY STRANGE AND FATAL CATASTROPHE THAT BEFELL THE AUTHOR.
- IN WHICH IT IS RELATED WHAT BECAME OF THE AUTHOR AFTER BEING HANGED.
- WHICH IS INTENDED AS A PENDANT TO BOOK I., AND CONTAINS THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF FORTUNE.
- CONTAINING AN INKLING OF THE LIFE AND HABITS OF MR. ARTHUR MEGRIM.
- THE HAPPY CONDITION IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS AT LAST PLACED.
- THE EMPLOYMENTS OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF FORTUNE.
- SOME ACCOUNT OF THE INCONVENIENCES OF HAVING A DIGESTIVE APPARATUS.
- THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL SURPRISING TRANSFORMATIONS.
- AN ACCOUNT OF THE WOES OF AN EMPEROR OF FRANCE, WHICH HAVE NEVER BEFORE APPEARED IN HISTORY.
- IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS CONVINCED THAT ALL IS NOT GOLD WHICH GLISTENS.
- IN WHICH THE AUTHOR STUMBLES UPON AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
- CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES OF THE GERMAN DOCTOR.
- CONTAINING A MORE WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ON THE PART OF SHEPPARD LEE, WITH PERHAPS THE MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURE THAT EVER BEFELL HIM.
- CONTAINING THE CONCLUSION OF THE HISTORY.
- SHEPPARD LEE FLIES FROM THE GERMAN DOCTOR, AND FINDS HIMSELF AGAIN IN NEW-JERSEY.
- WHAT HAD HAPPENED AT WATERMELON HILL DURING THE AUTHOR'S ABSENCE.
- CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF A SINGULAR DEBATE BETWIXT THE AUTHOR AND HIS BROTHER, WITH A PHILOSOPHIC DEFENCE OF THE AUTHOR'S CREDIBILITY.
- BEING THE LAST CHAPTER OF ALL.
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