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A young man's passage from sheltered country childhood into restless adulthood unfolds through adventures on land and sea, family disputes, and social ambitions. Raised amid strained family loyalties and eccentric elders, he forms intense friendships, encounters romantic entanglements with a princely heiress, and becomes entangled in his father's public displays of ambition. The episodic narrative mixes travel, domestic scenes, and political spectacle to examine ambition, inherited duty, and the tug between personal desire and social expectation, using vivid character portraits and satirical observation of manners and public life.

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Title: The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete

Author: George Meredith

Release date: November 3, 2004 [eBook #4452]
Most recently updated: December 11, 2021

Language: English

Credits: David Widger

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THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND

By George Meredith


CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION
CHAPTER II. AN ADVENTURE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT
CHAPTER III. DIPWELL FARM
CHAPTER IV. I HAVE A TASTE OF GRANDEUR
CHAPTER V. I MAKE A DEAR FRIEND
CHAPTER VI. A TALE OF A GOOSE
CHAPTER VII. A FREE LIFE ON THE ROAD
CHAPTER VIII. JANET ILCHESTER
CHAPTER IX. AN EVENING WITH CAPTAIN BULSTED
CHAPTER X. AN EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT FOG AND THE FIRE AT MIDNIGHT
CHAPTER XII. WE FIND OURSELVES BOUND ON A VOYAGE
CHAPTER XIII. WE CONDUCT SEVERAL LEARNED ARGUMENTS WITH THE CAPTAIN OF THE PRISCILLA
CHAPTER XIV. I MEET OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER XV. WE ARE ACCOSTED BY A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE LADY IN THE FOREST
CHAPTER XVI. THE STATUE ON THE PROMONTORY
CHAPTER XVII. MY FATHER BREATHES, MOVES, AND SPEAKS
CHAPTER XVIII. WE PASS A DELIGHTFUL EVENING, AND I HAVE A MORNING VISION
CHAPTER XIX. OUR RETURN HOMEWARD
CHAPTER XX. NEWS OF A FRESH CONQUEST OF MY FATHER'S
CHAPTER XXI. A PROMENADE IN BATH
CHAPTER XXII. CONCLUSION OF THE BATH EPISODE
CHAPTER XXIII. MY TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY
CHAPTER XXIV. I MEET THE PRINCESS
CHAPTER XXV. ON BOARD A YACHT
CHAPTER XXVI. IN VIEW OF THE HOHENZOLLERN'S BIRTHPLACE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE TIME OF ROSES
CHAPTER XXVIII. OTTILIA
CHAPTER XXIX. AN EVENING WITH DR. JULIUS VON KARSTEG
CHAPTER XXX. A SUMMER STORM, AND LOVE
CHAPTER XXXI. PRINCESS OTTILIA'S LETTER
CHAPTER XXXII. AN INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ERNEST AND A MEETING WITH PRINCE OTTO
CHAPTER XXXIII. WHAT CAME OF A SHILLING
CHAPTER XXXIV. I GAIN A PERCEPTION OF PRINCELY STATE
CHAPTER XXXV. THE SCENE IN THE LAKE-PALACE LIBRARY
CHAPTER XXXVI. HOMEWARD AND HOME AGAIN
CHAPTER XXXVII. JANET RENOUNCES ME
CHAPTER XXXVIII. MY BANKERS' BOOK
CHAPTER XXXIX. I SEE MY FATHER TAKING THE TIDE AND AM CARRIED ON IT MYSELF
CHAPTER XL. MY FATHER'S MEETING WITH MY GRANDFATHER
CHAPTER XLI. COMMENCEMENT OF THE SPLENDOURS AND PERPLEXITIES OF MY FATHER'S GRAND PARADE
CHAPTER XLII. THE MARQUIS OF EDBURY AND HIS PUPPET
CHAPTER XLIII. I BECOME ONE OF THE CHOSEN OF THE NATION
CHAPTER XLIV. MY FATHER IS MIRACULOUSLY RELIEVED BY FORTUNE
CHAPTER XLV. WITHIN AN INCH OF MY LIFE
CHAPTER XLVI. AMONG GIPSY WOMEN
CHAPTER XLVII. MY FATHER ACTS THE CHARMER AGAIN
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE PRINCESS ENTRAPPED
CHAPTER XLIX. WHICH FORESHADOWS A GENERAL GATHERING
CHAPTER L. WE ARE ALL IN MY FATHER'S NET
CHAPTER LI. AN ENCOUNTER SHOWING MY FATHER'S GENIUS IN A STRONG LIGHT
CHAPTER LII. STRANGE REVELATIONS, AND MY GRANDFATHER HAS HIS LAST OUTBURST
CHAPTER LIII. THE HEIRESS PROVES THAT SHE INHERITS THE FEUD AND I GO DRIFTING
CHAPTER LIV. MY RETURN TO ENGLAND
CHAPTER LV. I MEET MY FIRST PLAYFELLOW AND TAKE MY PUNISHMENT
CHAPTER LVI. CONCLUSION