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 COU

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