The Man Who Laughs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 754 pages of information about The Man Who Laughs.

The Man Who Laughs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 754 pages of information about The Man Who Laughs.

BOOK THE SECOND.—­THE HOOKER AT SEA.

I. Superhuman Laws
II.  Our First Rough Sketches Filled in
III.  Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea
iv.  A Cloud Different from the Others enters on the Scene
V. Hardquanonne
vi.  They Think that Help is at Hand
VII.  Superhuman Horrors
VIII.  Nix et Nox
IX.  The Charge Confided to a Raging Sea
X. The Colossal Savage, the Storm
XI.  The Caskets
XII.  Face to Face with the Rock
XIII.  Face to Face with Night
XIV.  Ortach
XV.  Portentosum Mare
XVI.  The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence
XVII.  The Last Resource
XVIII.  The Highest Resource

BOOK THE THIRD.—­THE CHILD IN THE SHADOW.

I. Chesil
II.  The Effect of Snow
III.  A Burden Makes a Rough Road Rougher
iv.  Another Form of Desert
V. Misanthropy Plays Its Pranks
vi.  The Awaking

PART II.

BOOK THE FIRST.—­THE EVERLASTING PRESENCE OF THE PAST. MAN REFLECTS MAN.

I. Lord Clancharlie
II.  Lord David Dirry-Moir
III.  The Duchess Josiana
iv.  The Leader of Fashion
V. Queen Anne
vi.  Barkilphedro
VII.  Barkilphedro Gnaws His Way
VIII.  Inferi
IX.  Hate is as Strong as Love
X. The Flame which would be Seen if Man were Transparent
XI.  Barkilphedro in Ambuscade
XII.  Scotland, Ireland, and England

BOOK THE SECOND.—­GWYNPLAINE AND DEA.

I. Wherein we see the Face of Him of whom we have hitherto seen only
       the Acts
II.  Dea
III.  “Oculos non Habet, et Videt”
IV.  Well-matched Lovers
V. The Blue Sky through the Black Cloud
vi.  Ursus as Tutor, and Ursus as Guardian
VII.  Blindness Gives Lessons in Clairvoyance
VIII.  Not only Happiness, but Prosperity
IX.  Absurdities which Folks without Taste call Poetry
X. An Outsider’s View of Men and Things
XI.  Gwynplaine Thinks Justice, and Ursus Talks Truth
XII.  Ursus the Poet Drags on Ursus the Philosopher

BOOK THE THIRD.—­THE BEGINNING OF THE FISSURE.

I. The Tadcaster Inn
II.  Open-Air Eloquence
III.  Where the Passer-by Reappears
iv.  Contraries Fraternize in Hate
V. The Wapentake
vi.  The Mouse Examined by the Cats
VII.  Why Should a Gold Piece Lower Itself by Mixing with a Heap of
       Pennies? 
VIII.  Symptoms of Poisoning
IX.  Abyssus Abyssum Vocat

BOOK THE FOURTH.—­THE CELL OF TORTURE.

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