The last of the barons / by Edward Bulwer Lytton; ilustratedby E. Pollak
New York : Ch. Scribner's SonsTabla de Contenido
Preliminares.
The last of the barons.
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.-VI.
IV. The norman earl and the saxon demagogue confer.
V. What faith edward IV. Purposeth to keep with earl and people.
VI. What befalls edward on his escape from olney.
V. What faith edward IV. Purposeth to keep with earl and people.
VI. What befalls edward on his escape from olney.
Chapter VII.-VIII.
VII. How king edward arrives at the castle of middleham.
VIII. The ancients rightly gave to the goddess of eloquence a crown.
VIII. The ancients rightly gave to the goddess of eloquence a crown.
Chapter IX. Wedded confidence and love.
Book VIII. In which last link between kingmaker and king snaps asunder.
Chapter I.-II.
I. The lady anne visits the court.
II. The sleeping innocence.-The wakeful crime.
II. The sleeping innocence.-The wakeful crime.
Chapter III. New dangers to the house of york.
Chapter IV. The foster-brothers.
Chapter V. The lover and the gallanti-woman's choice.
Chapter VI.-VII.
VI. Warwick returns appease a discontented prince.
VII. The fear and the flight.
VII. The fear and the flight.
Chapter VIII. The group round the death-bed of the lancastrian widow.
Book IX. The wanderers and the exiles.
Chapter I.-II.
I. How the great baron becomes as great a rebel.
II. Many things briefly told.
II. Many things briefly told.
Chapter III. The plot of the hostelry.
Chapter IV. This world's justice, and the wisdom of our ancestors.
Chapter V. The fugitives are captured.
Chapter VI. The subtle craft of richard of gloucester.
Chapter VII. Warwick and his family in exile.
Chapter VIII.-IX.
VIII. How the heir of lancaster meets the kingmaker.
IX. The interview of earl warwick and queen margaret.
IX. The interview of earl warwick and queen margaret.
Chapter X. Love and marriage.
Book X. The return of the king-maker.
Chapter I.-III.
I. The maid's hope, the courtier's love, and the sage's comfort.
II. The man awakes in the sage, and the she-wolf again tracked the lamb.
III. Virtuous resolves submitted to the of vanity and the world.
II. The man awakes in the sage, and the she-wolf again tracked the lamb.
III. Virtuous resolves submitted to the of vanity and the world.
Chapter IV.-VI.
IV. The strife which sibyll had courted, between katherine and herself, commences in serious earnest.
V. The meeting of hastings and katherine.
VI. Hastings learns what has befallen sibyll.
V. The meeting of hastings and katherine.
VI. Hastings learns what has befallen sibyll.
Chapter VII.-VIII.
VII. The landing of lord warwick, and the events that ensue thereon.
VIII. What befell adam warner and sibyll, when made subject to the great friar bungey.
VIII. What befell adam warner and sibyll, when made subject to the great friar bungey.
Chapter IX.-X.
IX. The deliberations of mayor and council, while lord warwick marches upon london.
X. The triumphal entry of the earl.
X. The triumphal entry of the earl.
Chapter XI. The tower in commotion.
Book XI. The new position of the king-maker.
Chapter I. Wherein master adam warner is notably commended and advanced.
Chapter II. The prosperity of the outer show-the cares of the man.
Chapter III. Farther views into the heart of man, and the conditions of power.
Chapter IV.-V.
IV. The return of edward of york.
V. The progress of the plantagenet.
V. The progress of the plantagenet.
Chapter VI. Lord warwick, with the foe in the field and the traitor at the hearth.
Book XII. The battle of barnet.
Chapter I.-II.
I. A king in his city hopes to recover his realm-Awoman in the chamber fears to forfeit her own.
II. Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
II. Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
Chapter III.-IV.
III. A pause.
IV. The battle.
IV. The battle.
Chapter V. The battle.
Chapter VI. The battle.
Chapter VII. The last pilcrims in the long procession to the common bourne.