The Revolt of the Angels
  • I. Containing in a Few Lines the History of a French Family from 1789 to the Present Day
  • II. Wherein Useful Information will be found concerning a Library where Strange Things will shortly come to pass
  • III. Wherein the Mystery begins
  • IV. Which in its Forceful Brevity projects us to the Limits of the Actual World
  • V. Wherein Everything seems Strange because Everything is Logical
  • VI. Wherein Père Sariette discovers his Missing Treasures
  • VII. Of a somewhat Lively Interest, whereof the Moral will, I hope, appeal greatly to my Readers
  • VIII. Which speaks of Love, a Subject which always gives Pleasure, for a Tale without Love is like Beef without Mustard: an Insipid Dish
  • IX. Wherein it is shown that, as an Ancient Greek Poet said, "Nothing is Sweeter than Aphrodite the Golden"
  • X. Which far surpasses in Audacity the Imaginative Flights of Dante and Milton
  • XI. Recounts in what Manner the Angel, attired in the Cast-Off Garments of a Suicide, leaves the Youthful Maurice without a Heavenly Guardian
  • XII. Wherein it is set forth how the Angel Mirar beheld a Music-Hall Singer named Bouchotte and fell in love with her
  • XIII. Wherein we hear the Beautiful Archangel Zita unfold her Lofty Designs and are shown the Wings of Mirar, all moth-eaten, in a Cupboard
  • XIV. Which reveals the Cherub toiling for the Welfare of Humanity and concludes in an entirely Novel Manner with the Miracle of the Flute
  • XV. Wherein we see Young Maurice bewailing the Loss of his Guardian Angel, and wherein we hear the Abbé Patouille reject as Vain and Illusory All Notions of a New Rebellion of the Angels
  • XVI. Wherein Mira the Seeress, Zéphyrine, and the Fatal Amédée are successively brought upon the Scene
  • XVII. Wherein we learn that Sophar, no less Eager for Gold than Mammon, looked upon his Heavenly Home less favourably than upon France, a Country blessed with a Savings Bank and Loan Departments
  • XVIII. Wherein is begun the Gardener's Story
  • XIX. The Gardener's Story, Continued
  • XX. The Gardener's Story, Continued
  • XXI. The Gardener's Story, Concluded
  • XXII. Wherein we are shown the Interior of a Bric-a-Brac Shop, and see how Père Guinardon's Guilty Happiness is marred by the Jealousy of a Love-Lorn Dame
  • XXIII. Wherein we are permitted to observe the Admirable Character of Bouchotte, who resists Violence but yields to Love
  • XXIV. Containing an Account of the Vicissitudes that befell the "Lucretius" of the Prior de Vendôme
  • XXV. Wherein Maurice finds his Angel again
  • XXVI. The Conclave
  • XXVII. Wherein we shall see revealed a Dark and Secret Mystery and learn how it comes about that Empires are often hurled against Empires, and Ruin falls alike upon the Victors and the Vanquished
  • XXVIII. Which treats of a Painful Domestic Scene
  • XXIX. Wherein we see how the Angel, having become a Man, behaves like a Man, coveting Another's Wife and betraying his Friend
  • XXX. Which treats of an Affair of Honour
  • XXXI. Wherein we are led to marvel at the Readiness with which an Honest Man of Timid and Gentle Nature can commit a Horrible Crime
  • XXXII. Which describes how Nectaire's Flute was heard in the Tavern of Clodomir
  • XXXIII. How a Dreadful Crime plunges Paris into a State of Terror
  • XXXIV. Which contains an Account of the Arrest of Bouchotte and Maurice, of the Disaster which befell the d'Esparvieu Library, and of the Departure of the Angels
  • XXXV. And Last, wherein the Sublime Dream of Satan is unfolded

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