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The Last of the Barons — Complete

Edward Bulwer-Lytton · Public domain text

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Language
English
Subjects
Great Britain › History › Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 › Fiction, Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of, 1428-1471 › Fiction
Length
258,343 words · about 18 h 5 min
Sections
98 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (98)
  1. Opening about 27 min
  2. I. THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE under 1 min
  3. II. THE KING’S COURT under 1 min
  4. Book III about 1 min
  5. IV. INTRIGUES OF THE COURT OF EDWARD IV about 1 min
  6. V. THE LAST OF THE BARONS IN HIS FATHERS HALLS under 1 min
  7. Book VI under 1 min
  8. VII. THE POPULAR REBELLION under 1 min
  9. Book VIII under 1 min
  10. IX. THE WANDERERS AND THE EXILES under 1 min
  11. X. THE RETURN OF THE KING-MAKER about 1 min
  12. XI. THE NEW POSITION OF THE KING-MAKER under 1 min
  13. XII. THE BATTLE OF BARNET under 1 min
  14. I. THE PASTIME-GROUND OF OLD COCKAIGNE about 23 min
  15. II. THE BROKEN GITTERN about 15 min
  16. III. THE TRADER AND THE GENTLE; OR, THE CHANGING GENERATION about 15 min
  17. IV. ILL FARES THE COUNTRY MOUSE IN THE TRAPS OF TOWN about 10 min
  18. V. WEAL TO THE IDLER, WOE TO THE WORKMAN about 27 min
  19. VI. MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE FEARS FOR THE SPIRITUAL WEAL OF HIS HOST AND HOSTESS about 10 min
  20. VII. THERE IS A ROD FOR THE BACK OF EVERY FOOL WHO WOULD BE WISER THAN HIS GENERATION about 16 min
  21. VIII. MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE MAKES LOVE, AND IS FRIGHTENED about 9 min
  22. IX. MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE LEAVES THE WIZARD’S HOUSE FOR THE GREAT WORLD about 7 min
  23. I. EARL WARWICK THE KING-MAKER about 25 min
  24. II. KING EDWARD THE FOURTH about 16 min
  25. III. THE ANTECHAMBER about 9 min
  26. I. THE SOLITARY SAGE AND THE SOLITARY MAID about 3 min
  27. II. MASTER ADAM WARNER GROWS A MISER, AND BEHAVES SHAMEFULLY about 10 min
  28. III. A STRANGE VISITOR.--ALL AGES OF THE WORLD BREED WORLD-BETTERS about 15 min
  29. IV. LORD HASTINGS about 7 min
  30. V. MASTER ADAM WARNER AND KING HENRY THE SIXTH about 18 min
  31. VI. HOW, ON LEAVING KING LOG, FOOLISH WISDOM RUNS A-MUCK ON KING STORK about 32 min
  32. IX. HOW THE DESTRUCTIVE ORGAN OF PRINCE RICHARD PROMISES GOODLY DEVELOPMENT about 10 min
  33. I. MARGARET OF ANJOU about 1 h 31 min
  34. VII. THE RENOWNED COMBAT BETWEEN SIR ANTHONY WOODVILLE AND THE BASTARD OF BURGUNDY about 11 min
  35. VIII. HOW THE BASTARD OF BURGUNDY PROSPERED MORE IN HIS POLICY THAN WITH THE POLE-AXE.-AND HOW KING EDWARD HOLDS HIS SUMMER CHASE IN THE FAIR GROVES OF SHENE about 15 min
  36. IX. THE GREAT ACTOR RETURNS TO FILL THE STAGE about 10 min
  37. X. HOW THE GREAT LORDS COME TO THE KING-MAKER, AND WITH WHAT PROFFERS about 7 min
  38. I. RURAL ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE AGES--NOBLE VISITORS SEEK THE CASTLE OF MIDDLEHAM about 13 min
  39. II. COUNCILS AND MUSINGS about 4 min
  40. III. THE SISTERS about 10 min
  41. IV. THE DESTRIER about 11 min
  42. Book VI under 1 min
  43. I. NEW DISSENSIONS about 10 min
  44. II. THE WOULD-BE IMPROVERS OF JOVE’S FOOTBALL, EARTH.--THE SAD FATHER AND THE SAD CHILD.--THE FAIR RIVALS about 15 min
  45. III. WHEREIN THE DEMAGOGUE SEEKS THE COURTIER about 7 min
  46. IV. SIBYLL about 7 min
  47. V. KATHERINE about 6 min
  48. VI. JOY FOR ADAM, AND HOPE FOR SIBYLL--AND POPULAR FRIAR BUNGEY! about 7 min
  49. VII. A LOVE SCENE about 7 min
  50. I. THE WHITE LION OF MARCH SHAKES HIS MANE about 6 min
  51. II. THE CAMP AT OLNEY about 18 min
  52. III. THE CAMP OF THE REBELS about 21 min
  53. IV. THE NORMAN EARL AND THE SAXON DEMAGOGUE CONFER about 3 min
  54. V. WHAT FAITH EDWARD IV. PURPOSETH TO KEEP WITH EARL AND PEOPLE about 8 min
  55. VI. WHAT BEFALLS KING EDWARD ON HIS ESCAPE FROM OLNEY about 7 min
  56. VII. HOW KING EDWARD ARRIVES AT THE CASTLE OF MIDDLEHAM about 5 min
  57. VIII. THE ANCIENTS RIGHTLY GAVE TO THE GODDESS OF ELOQUENCE A CROWN about 22 min
  58. I. THE LADY ANNE VISITS THE COURT about 11 min
  59. II. THE SLEEPING INNOCENCE--THE WAKEFUL CRIME about 7 min
  60. III. NEW DANGERS TO THE HOUSE OF YORK--AND THE KING’S HEART ALLIES ITSELF WITH REBELLION AGAINST THE KING’S THRONE about 17 min
  61. IV. THE FOSTER-BROTHERS about 7 min
  62. V. THE LOVER AND THE GALLANT--WOMAN’S CHOICE about 17 min
  63. VI. WARWICK RETURNS--APPEASES A DISCONTENTED PRINCE--AND CONFERS WITH A REVENGEFUL CONSPIRATOR about 6 min
  64. VII. THE FEAR AND THE FLIGHT about 13 min
  65. VIII. THE GROUP ROUND THE DEATH-BED OF THE LANCASTRIAN WIDOW about 3 min
  66. I. HOW THE GREAT BARON BECOMES AS GREAT A REBEL about 10 min
  67. II. MANY THINGS BRIEFLY TOLD about 7 min
  68. III. THE PLOT OF THE HOSTELRY--THE MAID AND THE SCHOLAR IN THEIR HOME about 17 min
  69. IV. THE WORLD’S JUSTICE, AND THE WISDOM OF OUR ANCESTORS about 13 min
  70. V. THE FUGITIVES ARE CAPTURED--THE TYMBESTERES REAPPEAR--MOONLIGHT ON THE REVEL OF THE LIVING--MOONLIGHT ON THE SLUMBER OF THE DEAD about 29 min
  71. VI. THE SUBTLE CRAFT OF RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER about 17 min
  72. VII. WARWICK AND HIS FAMILY IN EXILE about 13 min
  73. VIII. HOW THE HEIR OF LANCASTER MEETS THE KING-MAKER about 7 min
  74. IX. THE INTERVIEW OF EARL WARWICK AND QUEEN MARGARET about 31 min
  75. I. THE MAID’S HOPE, THE COURTIER’S LOVE, AND THE SAGE’S COMFORT about 6 min
  76. II. THE MAN AWAKES IN THE SAGE, AND THE SHE-WOLF AGAIN HATH TRACKED THE LAMB about 6 min
  77. III. VIRTUOUS RESOLVES SUBMITTED TO THE TEST OF VANITY AND THE WORLD about 9 min
  78. IV. THE STRIFE WHICH SIBYLL HAD COURTED, BETWEEN KATHERINE AND HERSELF, COMMENCES IN SERIOUS EARNEST about 9 min
  79. V. THE MEETING OF HASTINGS AND KATHERINE about 8 min
  80. VI. HASTINGS LEARNS WHAT HAS BEFALLEN SIBYLL, REPAIRS TO THE KING, AND ENCOUNTERS AN OLD RIVAL about 7 min
  81. VII. THE LANDING OF LORD WARWICK, AND THE EVENTS THAT ENSUE THEREON about 11 min
  82. VIII. WHAT BEFELL ADAM WARNER AND SIBYLL WHEN MADE SUBJECT TO THE GREAT FRIAR BUNGEY about 10 min
  83. IX. THE DELIBERATIONS OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL, WHILE LORD WARWICK MARCHES UPON LONDON about 9 min
  84. X. THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF THE EARL--THE ROYAL CAPTIVE IN THE TOWER--THE MEETING BETWEEN KING-MAKER AND KING about 6 min
  85. XI. THE TOWER IN COMMOTION about 19 min
  86. XI. THE NEW POSITION OF THE KING-MAKER about 16 min
  87. II. THE PROSPERITY OF THE OUTER SHOW--THE CARES OF THE INNER MAN about 11 min
  88. III. FURTHER VIEWS INTO THE HEART OF MAN, AND THE CONDITIONS OF POWER about 8 min
  89. IV. THE RETURN OF EDWARD OF YORK about 8 min
  90. V. THE PROGRESS OF THE PLANTAGENET about 7 min
  91. VI. LORD WARWICK, WITH THE FOE IN THE FIELD AND THE TRAITOR AT THE HEARTH about 9 min
  92. XII. THE BATTLE OF BARNET about 6 min
  93. II. SHARP IS THE KISS OF THE FALCON’S BEAR about 13 min
  94. III. A PAUSE about 4 min
  95. IV. THE BATTLE about 13 min
  96. V. THE BATTLE about 10 min
  97. VI. THE BATTLE about 20 min
  98. VII. THE LAST PILGRIMS IN THE LONG PROCESSION TO THE COMMON BOURNE about 9 min

The opening of 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
II Master Adam Warner grows a Miser, and behaves Shamefully
III A Strange Visitor--All Ages of the World breed World-
Betters
IV Lord Hastings
V Master Adam Warner and King Henry the Sixth
VI How, on leaving King Log, Foolish Wisdom runs a-muck on
King Stork
VII My Lady Duchess’s Opinion of the Utility of Master Warner’s
Invention, and her esteem for its Explosion
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 the Gibbet for the Silly Sage he
has seduced into his Schemes,--so, ever and evermore,
runs the World away
IX How the Destructive Organ of Prince Richard promises Goodly
Development

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