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Robert Falconer

George MacDonald · Public domain text

211,857 words · about 14 h 50 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Contents (72)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. I. A RECOLLECTION about 3 min
  3. II. A VISITOR about 12 min
  4. III. THE BOAR'S HEAD about 6 min
  5. IV. SHARGAR about 10 min
  6. V. THE SYMPOSIUM about 22 min
  7. VI. MRS. FALCONER about 14 min
  8. VII. ROBERT TO THE RESCUE! about 8 min
  9. VIII. THE ANGEL UNAWARES about 9 min
  10. IX. A DISCOVERY about 10 min
  11. X. ANOTHER DISCOVERY IN THE GARRET about 23 min
  12. XI. PRIVATE INTERVIEWS about 21 min
  13. XII. ROBERT'S PLAN OF SALVATION about 22 min
  14. XIII. ROBERT'S MOTHER about 10 min
  15. XIV. MARY ST. JOHN about 6 min
  16. XV. ERIC ERICSON about 11 min
  17. XVI. MR. LAMMIE'S FARM about 16 min
  18. XVII. ADVENTURES about 17 min
  19. XVIII. NATURE PUTS IN A CLAIM about 9 min
  20. XIX. ROBERT STEALS HIS OWN about 18 min
  21. XX. JESSIE HEWSON about 14 min
  22. XXI. THE DRAGON about 5 min
  23. XXII. DR. ANDERSON about 4 min
  24. XXIII. AN AUTO DA FÉ about 17 min
  25. XXIV. BOOT FOR BALE about 8 min
  26. XXV. THE GATES OF PARADISE about 8 min
  27. I. ROBERT KNOCKS--AND THE DOOR IS NOT OPENED about 15 min
  28. II. THE STROKE about 10 min
  29. III. 'THE END CROWNS ALL' about 13 min
  30. IV. THE ABERDEEN GARRET about 10 min
  31. V. THE COMPETITION about 6 min
  32. VI. DR. ANDERSON AGAIN about 7 min
  33. VII. ERIC ERICSON about 19 min
  34. VIII. A HUMAN PROVIDENCE about 8 min
  35. IX. A HUMAN SOUL about 16 min
  36. X. A FATHER AND A DAUGHTER about 10 min
  37. XI. ROBERT'S VOW about 5 min
  38. XII. THE GRANITE CHURCH about 12 min
  39. XIII. SHARGAR'S ARM about 6 min
  40. XIV. MYSIE'S FACE about 22 min
  41. XV. THE LAST OF THE COALS about 14 min
  42. XVI. A STRANGE NIGHT about 16 min
  43. XVII. HOME AGAIN about 9 min
  44. XVIII. A GRAVE OPENED about 6 min
  45. XIX. ROBERT MEDIATES about 17 min
  46. XX. ERICSON LOSES TO WIN about 6 min
  47. XXI. SHARGAR ASPIRES about 12 min
  48. XXII. ROBERT IN ACTION about 15 min
  49. XXIII. ROBERT FINDS A NEW INSTRUMENT about 6 min
  50. XXIV. DEATH about 6 min
  51. XXV. IN MEMORIAM about 10 min
  52. I. IN THE DESERT about 23 min
  53. II. HOME AGAIN about 15 min
  54. III. A MERE GLIMPSE about 7 min
  55. IV. THE DOCTOR'S DEATH about 14 min
  56. V. A TALK WITH GRANNIE about 14 min
  57. VI. SHARGAR'S MOTHER about 12 min
  58. VII. THE SILK-WEAVER about 14 min
  59. VIII. MY OWN ACQUAINTANCE about 31 min
  60. IX. THE BROTHERS about 15 min
  61. X. A NEOPHYTE about 20 min
  62. XI. THE SUICIDE about 35 min
  63. XII. ANDREW AT LAST about 14 min
  64. XIII. ANDREW REBELS about 9 min
  65. XIV. THE BROWN LETTER about 11 min
  66. XV. FATHER AND SON about 6 min
  67. XVI. CHANGE OF SCENE about 9 min
  68. XVII. IN THE COUNTRY about 22 min
  69. XVIII. THREE GENERATIONS about 3 min
  70. XIX. THE WHOLE STORY about 8 min
  71. XX. THE VANISHING about 7 min
  72. XXI. IN EXPECTATIONE about 21 min

The opening of I. A RECOLLECTION

Robert Falconer, school-boy, aged fourteen, thought he had never seen his father; that is, thought he had no recollection of having ever seen him. But the moment when my story begins, he had begun to doubt whether his belief in the matter was correct. And, as he went on thinking, he became more and more assured that he had seen his father somewhere about six years before, as near as a thoughtful boy of his age could judge of the lapse of a period that would form half of that portion of his existence which was bound into one by the reticulations of memory.

For there dawned upon his mind the vision of one Sunday afternoon. Betty had gone to church, and he was alone with his grandmother, reading The Pilgrim's Progress to her, when, just as Christian knocked at the wicket-gate, a tap came to the street door, and he went to open it.

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