
The twelve adventurers, and other stories
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About This Book
Written by Charlotte Brontë between the ages of twelve and twenty-one, these stories feature poetry, a short play, her first known love story, the occasional appearance of real historical figures, and the fantastical kingdom of Angria that was the setting of so much of the Brontë siblings’ early fiction. This collection of juvenilia was first published in 1925, long after her death, and is the first time that most of these stories appeared publicly.The contents, which are arranged roughly in the order they were written, are as follows:“The Twelve Adventurers”“An Adventure in Ireland”“The Searc...
Chapters (40)
- THE TWELVE ADVENTURERS AND OTHER STORIES
- NOTE
- CONTENTS
- THE TWELVE ADVENTURERS
- CHAPTER I THE COUNTRY OF THE GENII
- CHAPTER II THE VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
- CHAPTER III THE DESERT
- CHAPTER IV NEWS FROM HOME
- AN ADVENTURE IN IRELAND
- THE SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I CHARACTER OF O’DONELL—CAUSE OF HIS TRAVELS
- CHAPTER II ABOUT MEETING DELANCY—COMING TO THE OLD CASTLE—ENTERING THE NEW WORLD—DESCRIPTION
- CHAPTER III COMING TO THE CAVE—MANNER OF LIFE—ARRIVAL OF THE OLD MAN
- CHAPTER IV OLD MAN’S TALE
- CHAPTER V DEPARTURE OF THE OLD MAN—DISAPPEARANCE OF DELANCY—TRANSPORTATION OF O’DONELL—HIS ARRIVAL AT THE CITY—HIS ARRIVAL AT THE PALACE, AND HIS INTERVIEW WITH HIS CHIEF—HE FINDS DELANCY
- THE ADVENTURES OF ERNEST ALEMBERT
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- ALBION AND MARINA
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I ALBION
- CHAPTER II MARINA
- CHAPTER III GLASS TOWN
- CHAPTER IV LITERARY AMBITIONS
- CHAPTER V LADY ZELVIA ELLRINGTON
- CHAPTER VI THE SPIRIT OF MARINA
- CHAPTER VII ALBION’S RETURN
- THE RIVALS
- THE FAIRY GIFT
- LOVE AND JEALOUSY
- NAPOLEON AND THE SPECTRE
- THE TRAGEDY AND THE ESSAY
- A PEEP INTO A PICTURE BOOK
- MINA LAURY
- I
- II
- NOTES.
- ERRATA.
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