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Chronicles and Characters

By Robert Lytton (Owen Meredith): In Two Volumes

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891)

[dedication]

VOL.I

PRELUDE.

I.OPIS AND ARGE.

II.

II.CROESUS AND ADRASTUS.

III.

III.GYGES AND CANDAULES.

II.

III.

II.

III.

IV.

II.

III.

PART V. THE PRESENT.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

IV.

THE SCROLL AND ITS INTERPRETERS.

BOOK V. LEGENDS AND ROMANCES.

MOHAMMED.

THE ROSES OF SAADI.

I.MOSES AND THE DERVISH.

II.

II.THE BOY AND THE RING.

III.

III.THE EYES OF MAHMUD.

THE APPLE OF LIFE.

VI.

BOOK VI.

THE SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

PART I.

I.THE EMPEROR ISAAC.

II.

II.IS SAD.

III.

III.AND SO IS HIS BROTHER ALEXIUS: WHO PROPOSES

IV.

IV.A PARTY OF PLEASURE.

V.WHICH ENDS UNPLEASANTLY.

VI.

VI.OUT OF THE LIGHT, INTO THE DARK.

VII.

VII.ALEXIUS THE YOUNGER FLIES FROM ALEXIUS THE ELDER.

VIII.

VIII.AND TRIES HIS FORTUNES AND HIS FRIENDS.

IX.

IX.A GREAT MAN.

X.AND SOME NOTABLE MEN.

XI.

XI.LE VALET DE CONSTANTINOPLE.

XII.

XII.A BLIND MAN SEES FAR.

XIII.

XIII.QUOT HOMINES TOT SENTENTIAE.

II.

PART II.

I. THE EMPEROR MAKES A PROCLAMATION.

II.

II. AND RECEIVES THE AMBASSADORS.

III.

VOL. II. BOOK VI. (Continued.) THE SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

I.HOW THE EMPEROR PICKED UP WHAT THE DEVIL LET FALL.

II.

II.GAVE AWAY WHAT HE NO LONGER POSSESSED.

III.

III.WHAT WAS SHOWN TO THEOCRITE, THE MONK.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VII.THE DOGE IS OBSTINATE.

VIII.

VIII.VERTIGO.

IX.

IX.A DARK DEED.

X.THE FULNESS OF TIME.

XI.

XI.THE HORSES OF LYSIPPUS.

XII.

XII.AND THE LION OF ST. MARK.

VII.

BOOK VII. LEGENDS, BALLADS, AND ROMANCES.

FAREWELL TO THE HOLY LANDS.

DOGE ORSO'S NIGHT'S WORK.

SALZBURGENSIS VAGABUNDUS.

A KING AND A QUEEN.

FAIR YOLAND WITH THE YELLOW HAIR.

TRIAL BY COMBAT.

RABBI BEN EPHRAIM'S TREASURE.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

CATTERINA CORNARO.

II.

III.

JACQUELINE,

THE DIRGE.

VIII.

BOOK VIII. NARRATIVE, DRAMATIC, AND LYRICAL.

THE DEAD POPE.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

THOMAS MÜNTZER TO MARTIN LUTHER.

ADOLPHUS, DUKE OF GUELDERS.

THE DUKE'S LABORATORY.

VANINI

JOHN PETER CARAFA.

PICAROONS.

CHRISTIAN, THE DOL-HARTZOG.

ELISABETTA SIRANI.

RICHELIEU.

I. THE POETS.

II.

II THE THREE ESTATES.

III.

III. WALLENSTEIN'S DEATH.

THE DAUPHIN.

IX.

BOOK IX. HERE AND THERE.

ATLANTIS.

MISERY.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

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XII.

Things that dangle
Hairy and grey o'er the wall's choked angle
From something dull, in hue and shape
Like a Moor's head cut off at the nape.