The Wonderful Story of Ravalette
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In giving what follows to the world, no one can be more alive to the fact that this is the latter half of the nineteenth century, and that the present is emphatically the era of the grandest Utilitarianism, Revolution, Matter of Fact, and Doubt that the world ever knew, than is the editor of the following extraordinary tale. He has no apologies to make for offering it—no excuses, even as a novelist, for departing from the beaten track of “War, Love, Murder, and Revenge,” “Politics, Passion, and Prussic acid,” which constitute the staple of the modern novel.Disliking all long exordia, we propos...
Chapters (24)
- THE WONDERFUL STORY OF RAVALETTE. ALSO, TOM CLARK AND HIS WIFE, THEIR DOUBLE DREAMS AND THE CURIOUS THINGS THAT BEFELL THEM THEREIN; OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN’S STORY.
- INTRODUCTORY.
- BOOK I.
- CHAPTER I. THE STRANGE MAN.
- CHAPTER II. his early days—the strange legend.
- CHAPTER III. A SPECTRAL VISITANT.
- CHAPTER IV. A VERY STRANGE STORY—ETTELAVAR!
- CHAPTER V. LOVE. EULAMPÉA[2]—THE BEAUTIFUL.
- CHAPTER VI. NAPOLEON III. AND THE ROSICRUCIANS—AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN AND AN EXTRAORDINARY THEORY.
- BOOK II.
- CHAPTER I. ABOUT THE ROSICRUCIANS.
- CHAPTER II. WHO WAS HE?—WHAT WAS IT?
- CHAPTER III. PHOSPHORUS AND THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.
- CHAPTER IV. THE MAGIC MIRROR.
- BOOK III.
- CHAPTER I. RAVALETTE.
- CHAPTER II. SOMETHING CURIOUS.
- CHAPTER III. NOW COMES THE MYSTERY—A MAN GOES IN A CAB IN SEARCH OF HIS OWN GHOST.
- CHAPTER IV. MURDER WILL OUT.
- CHAPTER V. SÉANCE AT THE BARON’S—DIABLERIE EXTRAORDINAIRE.
- CHAPTER VI. ARRIVAL OF THE EDITOR.
- CHAPTER VII. THE GRAND SECRET?
- CHAPTER VIII. THE BOULEVART DE LUXEMBOURG.
- CHAPTER IX. THE SLEEP OF SIALAM.
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