The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete
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By British novelist George Meredith, The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1870–1871) is a romantic novel that alternates between picaresque and melodramatic sections. Meredith intended for the book to be a widespread hit, but the list of reprints indicates that only happened during Meredith's late Victorian and early Edwardian prime when some readers found his highly-wrought language to be a hindrance. The Adventures of Harry Richmond was first started by Meredith in 1863, and the following year he informed his friend Augustus Jessopp that he was working on a book titled The Adventure of Richmond...
Chapters (58)
- THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION
- CHAPTER II. AN ADVENTURE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT
- CHAPTER III. DIPWELL FARM
- CHAPTER IV. I HAVE A TASTE OF GRANDEUR
- CHAPTER V. I MAKE A DEAR FRIEND
- CHAPTER VI. A TALE OF A GOOSE
- CHAPTER VII. A FREE LIFE ON THE ROAD
- CHAPTER VIII. JANET ILCHESTER
- CHAPTER IX. AN EVENING WITH CAPTAIN BULSTED
- CHAPTER X. AN EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT FOG AND THE FIRE AT MIDNIGHT
- CHAPTER XII. WE FIND OURSELVES BOUND ON A VOYAGE
- CHAPTER XIII. WE CONDUCT SEVERAL LEARNED ARGUMENTS WITH THE CAPTAIN OF THE PRISCILLA
- CHAPTER XIV. I MEET OLD FRIENDS
- CHAPTER XV. WE ARE ACCOSTED BY A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE LADY IN THE FOREST
- CHAPTER XVI. THE STATUE ON THE PROMONTORY
- CHAPTER XVII. MY FATHER BREATHES, MOVES, AND SPEAKS
- CHAPTER XVIII. WE PASS A DELIGHTFUL EVENING, AND I HAVE A MORNING VISION
- CHAPTER XIX. OUR RETURN HOMEWARD
- CHAPTER XX. NEWS OF A FRESH CONQUEST OF MY FATHER'S
- CHAPTER XXI. A PROMENADE IN BATH
- CHAPTER XXII. CONCLUSION OF THE BATH EPISODE
- CHAPTER XXIII. MY TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY
- CHAPTER XXIV. I MEET THE PRINCESS
- CHAPTER XXV. ON BOARD A YACHT
- CHAPTER XXVI. IN VIEW OF THE HOHENZOLLERN'S BIRTHPLACE
- CHAPTER XXVII. THE TIME OF ROSES
- CHAPTER XXVIII. OTTILIA
- CHAPTER XXIX. AN EVENING WITH DR. JULIUS VON KARSTEG
- CHAPTER XXX. A SUMMER STORM, AND LOVE
- CHAPTER XXXI. PRINCESS OTTILIA'S LETTER
- CHAPTER XXXII. AN INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ERNEST AND A MEETING WITH PRINCE OTTO
- CHAPTER XXXIII. WHAT CAME OF A SHILLING
- CHAPTER XXXIV. I GAIN A PERCEPTION OF PRINCELY STATE
- CHAPTER XXXV. THE SCENE IN THE LAKE-PALACE LIBRARY
- CHAPTER XXXVI. HOMEWARD AND HOME AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXXVII. JANET RENOUNCES ME
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. MY BANKERS' BOOK
- CHAPTER XXXIX. I SEE MY FATHER TAKING THE TIDE AND AM CARRIED ON IT MYSELF
- CHAPTER XL. MY FATHER'S MEETING WITH MY GRANDFATHER
- CHAPTER XLI. COMMENCEMENT OF THE SPLENDOURS AND PERPLEXITIES OF MY FATHER'S GRAND PARADE
- CHAPTER XLII. THE MARQUIS OF EDBURY AND HIS PUPPET
- CHAPTER XLIII. I BECOME ONE OF THE CHOSEN OF THE NATION
- CHAPTER XLIV. MY FATHER IS MIRACULOUSLY RELIEVED BY FORTUNE
- CHAPTER XLV. WITHIN AN INCH OF MY LIFE
- CHAPTER XLVI. AMONG GIPSY WOMEN
- CHAPTER XLVII. MY FATHER ACTS THE CHARMER AGAIN
- CHAPTER XLVIII. THE PRINCESS ENTRAPPED
- CHAPTER XLIX. WHICH FORESHADOWS A GENERAL GATHERING
- CHAPTER L. WE ARE ALL IN MY FATHER'S NET
- CHAPTER LI. AN ENCOUNTER SHOWING MY FATHER'S GENIUS IN A STRONG LIGHT
- CHAPTER LII. STRANGE REVELATIONS, AND MY GRANDFATHER HAS HIS LAST OUTBURST
- CHAPTER LIII. THE HEIRESS PROVES THAT SHE INHERITS THE FEUD AND I GO DRIFTING
- CHAPTER LIV. MY RETURN TO ENGLAND
- CHAPTER LV. I MEET MY FIRST PLAYFELLOW AND TAKE MY PUNISHMENT
- CHAPTER LVI. CONCLUSION
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