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THE LAST OF THE BARONS



By Edward Bulwer Lytton





CONTENTS


DEDICATORY EPISTLE.

PREFACE TO THE LAST OF THE BARONS

BOOK I.   THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE

CHAPTER I.   THE PASTIME-GROUND OF OLD COCKAIGNE

CHAPTER II.   THE BROKEN GITTERN

CHAPTER III.   THE TRADER AND THE GENTLE; OR, THE CHANGING GENERATION

CHAPTER IV.   ILL FARES THE COUNTRY MOUSE IN THE TRAPS OF TOWN

CHAPTER V.   WEAL TO THE IDLER, WOE TO THE WORKMAN

CHAPTER VI.   MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE FEARS FOR THE SPIRITUAL WEAL OF HIS HOST AND HOSTESS

CHAPTER VII.   THERE IS A ROD FOR THE BACK OF EVERY FOOL WHO WOULD BE WISER THAN HIS GENERATION

CHAPTER VIII.   MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE MAKES LOVE, AND IS FRIGHTENED

CHAPTER IX.   MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE LEAVES THE WIZARD’S HOUSE FOR THE GREAT WORLD

BOOK II.   THE KING’S COURT

CHAPTER I.   EARL WARWICK THE KING-MAKER

CHAPTER II.   KING EDWARD THE FOURTH

CHAPTER III.   THE ANTECHAMBER

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

CHAPTER IX.   HOW THE DESTRUCTIVE ORGAN OF PRINCE RICHARD PROMISES GOODLY DEVELOPMENT

BOOK IV.   INTRIGUES OF THE COURT OF EDWARD IV

CHAPTER I.   MARGARET OF ANJOU

CHAPTER II.   IN WHICH ARE LAID OPEN TO THE READER THE CHARACTER OF EDWARD THE FOURTH AND THAT OF HIS COURT, WITH THE MACHINATIONS OF THE WOODVILLES AGAINST THE EARL OF WARWICK

CHAPTER III.   WHEREIN MASTER NICHOLAS ALWYN VISITS THE COURT, AND THERE LEARNS MATTER OF WHICH THE ACUTE READER WILL JUDGE FOR HIMSELF

CHAPTER IV.   EXHIBITING THE BENEFITS WHICH ROYAL PATRONAGE CONFERS ON GENIUS,—ALSO THE EARLY LOVES OF THE LORD HASTINGS; WITH OTHER MATTERS EDIFYING AND DELECTABLE

CHAPTER V.   THE WOODVILLE INTRIGUE PROSPERS.—MONTAGU CONFERS WITH HASTINGS, VISITS THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, AND IS MET ON THE ROAD BY A STRANGE PERSONAGE

CHAPTER VI.   THE ARRIVAL OF THE COUNT DE LA ROCHE, AND THE VARIOUS EXCITEMENT PRODUCED ON MANY PERSONAGES BY THAT EVENT

CHAPTER VII.   THE RENOWNED COMBAT BETWEEN SIR ANTHONY WOODVILLE AND THE BASTARD OF BURGUNDY

CHAPTER VIII.   HOW THE BASTARD OF BURGUNDY PROSPERED MORE IN HIS POLICY THAN WITH THE POLE-AXE.-AND HOW KING EDWARD HOLDS HIS SUMMER CHASE IN THE FAIR GROVES OF SHENE

CHAPTER IX.   THE GREAT ACTOR RETURNS TO FILL THE STAGE

CHAPTER X.   HOW THE GREAT LORDS COME TO THE KING-MAKER, AND WITH WHAT PROFFERS

BOOK V.  

CHAPTER I.   RURAL ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE AGES—NOBLE VISITORS SEEK THE CASTLE OF MIDDLEHAM

CHAPTER II.   COUNCILS AND MUSINGS

CHAPTER III.   THE SISTERS

CHAPTER IV.   THE DESTRIER

BOOK VI.   

CHAPTER I.   NEW DISSENSIONS

CHAPTER II.   THE WOULD-BE IMPROVERS OF JOVE’S FOOTBALL, EARTH.—THE SAD FATHER AND THE SAD CHILD.—THE FAIR RIVALS

CHAPTER III.   WHEREIN THE DEMAGOGUE SEEKS THE COURTIER

CHAPTER IV.   SIBYLL

CHAPTER V.   KATHERINE

CHAPTER VI.   JOY FOR ADAM, AND HOPE FOR SIBYLL—AND POPULAR FRIAR BUNGEY!

CHAPTER VII.   A LOVE SCENE

BOOK VII.   THE POPULAR REBELLION

CHAPTER I.   THE WHITE LION OF MARCH SHAKES HIS MANE

CHAPTER II.   THE CAMP AT OLNEY

CHAPTER III.   THE CAMP OF THE REBELS

CHAPTER IV.   THE NORMAN EARL AND THE SAXON DEMAGOGUE CONFER

CHAPTER V.   WHAT FAITH EDWARD IV. PURPOSETH TO KEEP WITH EARL AND PEOPLE

CHAPTER VI.   WHAT BEFALLS KING EDWARD ON HIS ESCAPE FROM OLNEY

CHAPTER VII.   HOW KING EDWARD ARRIVES AT THE CASTLE OF MIDDLEHAM

CHAPTER VIII.   THE ANCIENTS RIGHTLY GAVE TO THE GODDESS OF ELOQUENCE A CROWN

CHAPTER IX.   WEDDED CONFIDENCE AND LOVE—THE EARL AND THE PRELATE—THE PRELATE AND THE KING—SCHEMES—WILES—AND THE BIRTH OF A DARK THOUGHT DESTINED TO ECLIPSE A SUN

BOOK VIII.   IN WHICH THE LAST LINK BETWEEN KING-MAKER AND KING SNAPS ASUNDER

CHAPTER I.   THE LADY ANNE VISITS THE COURT

CHAPTER II.   THE SLEEPING INNOCENCE—THE WAKEFUL CRIME

CHAPTER III.   NEW DANGERS TO THE HOUSE OF YORK—AND THE KING’S HEART ALLIES ITSELF WITH REBELLION AGAINST THE KING’S THRONE

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