
Roderick Random was published in 1748 to immediate acclaim, and established Smollett among the most popular of eighteenth-century novelists. Narrated by an unheroic, apparently rudderless hero named Random, Smollett's wildly energetic and entertaining novel is held together not least by the narrator's outrage and dismay. Although Roderick Random was first published anonymously, the secret of Smollett's authorship was soon discovered, with the result that many readers thought they recognized similarities between the life of the hero and that of his creator. Certainly Roderick Random's early years - disinherited and without wealth and influence - and his university career, apprenticeship and service as a naval surgeon, vividly reflect the experiences of the author. How Random learns to survive the fickle hand of fortune, recovers his long-lost father, marries his beloved Narcissa, and dispatches his enemies is the stuff, not of autobiography but of a novel which profoundly satirizes the moral chaosof its times. Dickens and Thackeray, among other great Victorians, applauded Smollett for his wit and invention, and in Roderick Random we enjoy the novel of a pioneer opening up the frontiers of fiction.
- THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON.
- BY
- ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I.
- THE SQUIRE OF ALLINGTON.
- CHAPTER II.
- THE TWO PEARLS OF ALLINGTON.
- CHAPTER III.
- THE WIDOW DALE OF ALLINGTON.
- CHAPTER IV.
- MRS. ROPER'S BOARDING-HOUSE.
- CHAPTER V.
- ABOUT L. D.
- CHAPTER VI.
- BEAUTIFUL DAYS.
- CHAPTER VII.
- THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLES.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- IT CANNOT BE.
- CHAPTER IX.
- MRS. DALE'S LITTLE PARTY.
- CHAPTER X.
- MRS. LUPEX AND AMELIA ROPER.
- CHAPTER XI.
- SOCIAL LIFE.
- CHAPTER XII.
- LILIAN DALE BECOMES A BUTTERFLY.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- A VISIT TO GUESTWICK.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- JOHN EAMES TAKES A WALK.
- CHAPTER XV.
- THE LAST DAY.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- MR. CROSBIE MEETS AN OLD CLERGYMAN ON HIS WAY TO COURCY CASTLE.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- COURCY CASTLE.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- LILY DALE'S FIRST LOVE-LETTER.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- THE SQUIRE MAKES A VISIT TO THE SMALL HOUSE.
- CHAPTER XX.
- DR. CROFTS.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- JOHN EAMES ENCOUNTERS TWO ADVENTURES, AND DISPLAYS GREAT COURAGE IN BOTH.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- LORD DE GUEST AT HOME.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- MR. PLANTAGENET PALLISER.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- A MOTHER-IN-LAW AND A FATHER-IN-LAW.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- ADOLPHUS CROSBIE SPENDS AN EVENING AT HIS CLUB.
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- LORD DE COURCY IN THE BOSOM OF HIS FAMILY.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- "ON MY HONOUR, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT."
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- THE BOARD.
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- JOHN EAMES RETURNS TO BURTON CRESCENT.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- IS IT FROM HIM?
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- THE WOUNDED FAWN.
- CHAPTER XXXII.
- PAWKINS'S IN JERMYN STREET.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.
- "THE TIME WILL COME."
- CHAPTER XXXIV.
- THE COMBAT.
- CHAPTER XXXV.
- VÆ VICTIS.
- CHAPTER XXXVI.
- "SEE, THE CONQUERING HERO COMES."
- CHAPTER XXXVII.
- AN OLD MAN'S COMPLAINT.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII.
- DOCTOR CROFTS IS CALLED IN.
- CHAPTER XXXIX.
- DR. CROFTS IS TURNED OUT.
- CHAPTER XL.
- PREPARATIONS FOR THE WEDDING.
- CHAPTER XLI.
- DOMESTIC TROUBLES.
- CHAPTER XLII.
- LILY'S BEDSIDE.
- CHAPTER XLIII.
- FIE, FIE!
- CHAPTER XLIV.
- VALENTINE'S DAY AT ALLINGTON.
- CHAPTER XLV.
- VALENTINE'S DAY IN LONDON.
- CHAPTER XLVI.
- JOHN EAMES AT HIS OFFICE.
- CHAPTER XLVII.
- THE NEW PRIVATE SECRETARY.
- CHAPTER XLVIII.
- NEMESIS.
- CHAPTER XLIX.
- PREPARATIONS FOR GOING.
- CHAPTER L.
- MRS. DALE IS THANKFUL FOR A GOOD THING.
- CHAPTER LI.
- JOHN EAMES DOES THINGS WHICH HE OUGHT NOT TO HAVE DONE.
- CHAPTER LII.
- THE FIRST VISIT TO THE GUESTWICK BRIDGE.
- CHAPTER LIII.
- LOQUITUR HOPKINS.
- CHAPTER LIV.
- THE SECOND VISIT TO THE GUESTWICK BRIDGE.
- CHAPTER LV.
- NOT VERY FIE FIE AFTER ALL.
- CHAPTER LVI.
- SHOWING HOW MR. CROSBIE BECAME AGAIN A HAPPY MAN.
- CHAPTER LVII.
- LILIAN DALE VANQUISHES HER MOTHER.
- CHAPTER LVIII.
- THE FATE OF THE SMALL HOUSE.
- CHAPTER LIX.
- JOHN EAMES BECOMES A MAN.
- CHAPTER LX.
- CONCLUSION.
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