Under Three Flags: A Story of Mystery
by Alvin T. Thoits Bert Leston Taylor
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In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities , his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siecle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea.A jewelled pomegranate packed with nitroglycerine is primed to blow away Manila’s 19th-century colonial elite at the climax of El Filibusterismo , whose author, the great political novelist Jose Rizal, was executed in 1896 by the Spanish authorities in the Philippines at the age of 35. Anderson explores the impact of avant-ga...
Chapters (60)
- UNDER THREE FLAGS —A Story of Mystery
- CHAPTER I. “OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.”
- CHAPTER II. THE PRISONER OF WINDSOR—THE TRAGEDY OF A NIGHT.
- CHAPTER III. JACK ASHLEY, JOURNALIST.
- CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF A CRIME.
- CHAPTER V. A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE.
- CHAPTER VI. THE CORONER’S INQUEST.
- CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON.
- CHAPTER VIII. A PROPOSITION OF PARTNERSHIP.
- CHAPTER IX. LOUISE HATHAWAY.
- CHAPTER X. MR. BARKER’S DISCOVERIES.
- CHAPTER XI. A SIFTING OF EVIDENCE.
- CHAPTER XII. FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF CLEWS.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE KEY TO THE MYSTERY.
- CHAPTER XIV. A CHANGE OF BASE.
- CHAPTER XV. SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE BEGINNING OF THE TRAIL.
- CHAPTER XVII. A CUP OF CHOCOLATE AT MAILLARD’S.
- CHAPTER XVIII. BARKER DECIDES TO STRIKE.
- CHAPTER XIX. PHILLIP VAN ZANDT.
- CHAPTER XX. A SUPPOSITION BECOMES A FACT.
- CHAPTER XXI. “DON CAESAR DE BAZAN.”
- CHAPTER XXII. A FAIRY TALE THAT CAME TRUE.
- CHAPTER XXIII. A REPRISAL OF TREACHERY.
- CHAPTER XXIV. FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY.
- CHAPTER XXV. TWO KINDS OF BLOCKADE.
- CHAPTER XXVI. THE PENALTY OF PROCRASTINATION.
- CHAPTER XXVII. THE CRUISER AMERICA.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. GREAT RACE TO THE OCEAN.
- CHAPTER XXIX. ASHLEY LAGS SUPERFLUOUS.
- CHAPTER XXX. ON TO FAIR CUBA.
- CHAPTER XXXI. THE FLAG OF CUBA.
- CHAPTER XXXII. THE FLAG OF CASTILE.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. AN AFFRONT AND AN APOLOGY.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. A SPANISH BILL OF FARE.
- CHAPTER XXXV. A CAFE QUARREL.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. JUANITA.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. ONE WAY TO GET TO CUBA.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. A SOLDIER OF CASTILE.
- CHAPTER XXXIX. ASHLEY TAKES THE FIELD.
- CHAPTER XL. THE APPEARANCE OF THE SERPENT.
- CHAPTER XLI. THE MEETING AT CADOZA.
- CHAPTER XLII. “EL TERREDO.”
- CHAPTER XLIII. THE FIGHT IN THE MOONLIGHT.
- CHAPTER XLIV. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF DON CARLOS.
- CHAPTER XLV. THE DOVE AND THE SERPENT.
- CHAPTER XLVI. PLAYING FOR HIGH STAKES.
- CHAPTER XLVII. THE PEN WINS.
- CHAPTER XLVIII. THE SWORD TRIUMPHANT.
- CHAPTER XLIX. EL CALABOZO DE INFIERNO.
- CHAPTER L. AT BAY IN THE CHURCH OF SAN PEDRO.
- CHAPTER LI. UNDER THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE.
- CHAPTER LII. THE ENCOUNTER AT THE CAFE DE ALMENDRAS.
- CHAPTER LIII. A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE.
- CHAPTER LIV. AT BAY IN THE CONSUL’S HOUSE.
- CHAPTER LV. A SIGNAL FROM MACEDONIA.
- CHAPTER LVI. THE FATE OF THE SEMIRAMIS.
- CHAPTER LVII. AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE.
- CHAPTER LVIII. THE END OF THE TRAIL.
- CHAPTER LIX. “WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF FATE.”
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