Last Of The Barons
DEDICATORY EPISTLE.
BOOK I. THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE.
BOOK II. THE KING'S COURT.
BOOK III. IN WHICH THE HISTORY PASSES FROM THE KING'S
COURT TO THE STUDENT'S CELL, AND RELATES THE PERILS THAT BEFELL A
PHILOSOPHER FOR MEDDLING WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD.
- CHAPTER I. THE SOLITARY SAGE AND THE SOLITARY MAID.
- CHAPTER II. MASTER ADAM WARNER GROWS A MISER, AND
BEHAVES SHAMEFULLY.
- CHAPTER III. A STRANGE VISITOR.—ALL AGES OF THE
WORLD BREED WORLD-BETTERS.
- CHAPTER IV. LORD HASTINGS.
- CHAPTER V. MASTER ADAM WARNER AND KING HENRY THE
SIXTH.
- CHAPTER VI. HOW, ON LEAVING KING LOG, FOOLISH
WISDOM RUNS A-MUCK ON KING STORK.
- CHAPTER VII. MY LADY DUCHESS'S OPINION OF THE
UTILITY OF MASTER WARNER'S INVENTION, AND HER ESTEEM FOR
ITS—EXPLOSION.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE OLD WOMAN TALKS OF SORROWS, THE
YOUNG WOMAN DREAMS OF LOVE; THE COURTIER FLIES FROM PRESENT POWER TO
REMEMBRANCES OF PAST HOPES, AND THE WORLD-BETTERED OPENS UTOPIA, WITH A
VIEW OF THE GIBBET FOR THE SILLY SAGE HE HAS SEDUCED INTO HIS
SCHEMES,—SO, EVER AND EVERMORE, RUNS THE WORLD AWAY!
- CHAPTER IX. HOW THE DESTRUCTIVE ORGAN OF PRINCE
RICHARD PROMISES GOODLY DEVELOPMENT.
BOOK IV. INTRIGUES OF THE COURT OF EDWARD IV.
BOOK VI. WHEREIN ARE OPENED SOME GLIMPSES OF THE FATE
BELOW THAT ATTENDS THOSE WHO ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS, AND THOSE WHO
DESIRE TO MAKE OTHERS BETTER. LOVE, DEMAGOGY, AND SCIENCE ALL EQUALLY
OFF-SPRING OF THE SAME PROLIFIC DELUSION,—NAMELY, THAT MEAN SOULS (THE
EARTH'S MAJORITY) ARE WORTH THE HOPE AND THE AGONY OF NOBLE SOULS, THE
EVERLASTING SUFFERING AND ASPIRING FEW.
BOOK VII. THE POPULAR REBELLION.
BOOK VIII. IN WHICH THE LAST LINK BETWEEN KING-MAKER
AND KING SNAPS ASUNDER.
BOOK IX. THE WANDERERS AND THE EXILES.
BOOK X. THE RETURN OF THE KING-MAKER.
BOOK XI. THE NEW POSITION OF THE KING-MAKER
BOOK XII. THE BATTLE OF BARNET.
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