The Rose and the Ring
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Chapters (22)
- THE ROSE AND THE RING
- PRELUDE
- THE ROSE AND THE RING
- I. SHOWS HOW THE ROYAL FAMILY SATE DOWN TO BREAKFAST
- II. HOW KING VALOROSO GOT THE CROWN, AND PRINCE GIGLIO WENT WITHOUT
- III. TELLS WHO THE FAIRY BLACKSTICK WAS, AND WHO WERE EVER SO MANY GRAND PERSONAGES BESIDES
- IV. HOW BLACKSTICK WAS NOT ASKED TO THE PRINCESS ANGELICA’S CHRISTENING
- V. HOW PRINCESS ANGELICA TOOK A LITTLE MAID
- VI. HOW PRINCE GIGLIO BEHAVED HIMSELF
- VII. HOW GIGLIO AND ANGELICA HAD A QUARREL
- VIII. HOW GRUFFANUFF PICKED THE FAIRY RING UP, AND PRINCE BULBO CAME TO COURT
- IX. HOW BETSINDA GOT THE WARMING PAN
- X. HOW KING VALOROSO WAS IN A DREADFUL PASSION
- XI. WHAT GRUFFANUFF DID TO GIGLIO AND BETSINDA
- XII. HOW BETSINDA FLED, AND WHAT BECAME OF HER
- XIII. HOW QUEEN ROSALBA CAME TO THE CASTLE OF THE BOLD COUNT HOGGINARMO
- XIV. WHAT BECAME OF GIGLIO
- XV. WE RETURN TO ROSALBA
- XVI. HOW HEDZOFF RODE BACK AGAIN TO KING GIGLIO
- XVII. HOW A TREMENDOUS BATTLE TOOK PLACE, AND WHO WON IT
- XVIII. HOW THEY ALL JOURNEYED BACK TO THE CAPITAL
- XIX. AND NOW WE COME TO THE LAST SCENE IN THE PANTOMIME
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