The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment
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About This Book
Grayson embarks on one of the joys of youth, regaining a sense of perfect freedom. He takes to the road for a period of months, temporarily leaving behind all responsibilities and rejoicing in the land and people he will meet. He invites us along.
Chapters (17)
- THE FRIENDLY ROAD New Adventures in Contentment
- THE FRIENDLY ROAD
- A WORD TO HIM WHO OPENS THIS BOOK
- CHAPTER I. I LEAVE MY FARM
- CHAPTER II. I WHISTLE
- CHAPTER III. THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
- CHAPTER IV. I AM THE SPECTATOR OF A MIGHTY BATTLE, IN WHICH CHRISTIAN MEETS APPOLLYON
- CHAPTER V. I PLAY THE PART OF A SPECTACLE PEDDLER
- CHAPTER VI. AN EXPERIMENT IN HUMAN NATURE
- CHAPTER VII. THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
- CHAPTER VIII. THE HEDGE
- Strange, strange, how small the big world is!
- CHAPTER IX. THE MAN POSSESSED
- CHAPTER X. I AM CAUGHT UP INTO LIFE
- CHAPTER XI. I COME TO GRAPPLE WITH THE CITY
- CHAPTER XII. THE RETURN
- “Everything divine runs with light feet.”
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