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The Last of the Barons

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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  1. 1Dedicatory Epistle
  2. 2Preface to the Last of the Barons
  3. 3Book I | The Adventures of Master Marmaduke Nevile
  4. 4Chapter II — The Broken Gittern
  5. 5Chapter III — The Trader and the Gentle; or, The Changing Generation
  6. 6Chapter IV — Ill Fares the Country Mouse in the Traps of Town
  7. 7Chapter V — Weal to the Idler, Woe to the Workman
  8. 8Chapter VI — Master Marmaduke Nevile Fears for the Spiritual Weal o…
  9. 9Chapter VII — There Is a Rod for the Back of Every Fool Who Would B…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Master Marmaduke Nevile Makes Love, and Is Frightened
  11. 11Chapter IX — Master Marmaduke Nevile Leaves the Wizard’s House for…
  12. 12Book II | The King’s Court
  13. 13Chapter II — King Edward the Fourth
  14. 14Chapter III — The Antechamber
  15. 15Book III | In Which the History Passes From the King’s Court to the…
  16. 16Chapter II — Master Adam Warner Grows a Miser, and Behaves Shamefully
  17. 17Chapter III — A Strange Visitor — All Ages of the World Breed World…
  18. 18Chapter IV — Lord Hastings
  19. 19Chapter V — Master Adam Warner and King Henry the Sixth
  20. 20Chapter VI — How, on Leaving King Log, Foolish Wisdom Runs A-Muck o…
  21. 21Chapter VII — My Lady Duchess’s Opinion of the Utility of Master Wa…
  22. 22Chapter VIII — The Old Woman Talks of Sorrows, the Young Woman Drea…
  23. 23Chapter IX — How the Destructive Organ of Prince Richard Promises G…
  24. 24Book IV | Intrigues of the Court of Edward IV
  25. 25Chapter II — In Which Are Laid Open to the Reader the Character of…
  26. 26Chapter III — Wherein Master Nicholas Alwyn Visits the Court, and T…
  27. 27Chapter IV — Exhibiting the Benefits Which Royal Patronage Confers…
  28. 28Chapter V — The Woodville Intrigue Prospers — Montagu Confers With…
  29. 29Chapter VI — The Arrival of the Count de la Roche, and the Various…
  30. 30Chapter VII — The Renowned Combat Between Sir Anthony Woodville and…
  31. 31Chapter VIII — How the Bastard of Burgundy Prospered More in His Po…
  32. 32Chapter IX — The Great Actor Returns to Fill the Stage
  33. 33Chapter X — How the Great Lords Come to the King-Maker, and With Wh…
  34. 34Book V
  35. 35Chapter II — Councils and Musings
  36. 36Chapter III — The Sisters
  37. 37Chapter IV — The Destrier
  38. 38Book VI — Wherein Are Opened Some Glimpses of the Fate Below That A…
  39. 39Chapter I — New Dissensions
  40. 40Chapter II — The Would-Be Improvers of Jove’s Football, Earth — The…
  41. 41Chapter III — Wherein the Demagogue Seeks the Courtier
  42. 42Chapter IV — Sibyll
  43. 43Chapter V — Katherine
  44. 44Chapter VI — Joy for Adam, and Hope for Sibyll — And Popular Friar…
  45. 45Chapter VII — A Love Scene
  46. 46Book VII | The Popular Rebellion
  47. 47Chapter II — The Camp at Olney
  48. 48Chapter III — The Camp of the Rebels
  49. 49Chapter IV — The Norman Earl and the Saxon Demagogue Confer
  50. 50Chapter V — What Faith Edward IV. Purposeth to Keep With Earl and P…
  51. 51Chapter VI — What Befalls King Edward on His Escape From Olney
  52. 52Chapter VII — How King Edward Arrives at the Castle of Middleham
  53. 53Chapter VIII — The Ancients Rightly Gave to the Goddess of Eloquenc…
  54. 54Chapter IX — Wedded Confidence and Love…
  55. 55Book VIII | In Which the Last Link Between King-Maker and King Snap…
  56. 56Chapter II — The Sleeping Innocence — The Wakeful Crime
  57. 57Chapter III — New Dangers to the House of York — And the King’s Hea…
  58. 58Chapter IV — The Foster-Brothers
  59. 59Chapter V — The Lover and the Gallant — Woman’s Choice
  60. 60Chapter VI — Warwick Returns — Appeases a Discontented Prince — And…
  61. 61Chapter VII — The Fear and the Flight
  62. 62Chapter VIII — The Group Round the Death-Bed of the Lancastrian Widow
  63. 63Book IX | The Wanderers and the Exiles
  64. 64Chapter II — Many Things Briefly Told
  65. 65Chapter III — The Plot of the Hostelry — The Maid and the Scholar i…
  66. 66Chapter IV — The World’s Justice, and the Wisdom of Our Ancestors
  67. 67Chapter V — The Fugitives Are Captured — The Tymbesteres Reappear —…
  68. 68Chapter VI — The Subtle Craft of Richard of Gloucester
  69. 69Chapter VII — Warwick and His Family in Exile
  70. 70Chapter VIII — How the Heir of Lancaster Meets the King-Maker
  71. 71Chapter IX — The Interview of Earl Warwick and Queen Margaret
  72. 72Chapter X — Love and Marriage — Doubts of Conscience — Domestic Jea…
  73. 73Book X | The Return of the King-Maker
  74. 74Chapter II — The Man Awakes in the Sage, and the She-Wolf Again Hat…
  75. 75Chapter III — Virtuous Resolves Submitted to the Test of Vanity and…
  76. 76Chapter IV — The Strife Which Sibyll Had Courted, Between Katherine…
  77. 77Chapter V — The Meeting of Hastings and Katherine
  78. 78Chapter VI — Hastings Learns What Has Befallen Sibyll, Repairs to t…
  79. 79Chapter VII — The Landing of Lord Warwick, and the Events That Ensu…
  80. 80Chapter VIII — What Befell Adam Warner and Sibyll When Made Subject…
  81. 81Chapter IX — The Deliberations of Mayor and Council, While Lord War…
  82. 82Chapter X — The Triumphal Entry of the Earl — The Royal Captive in…
  83. 83Chapter XI — The Tower in Commotion
  84. 84Book XI | The New Position of the King-Maker
  85. 85Chapter II — The Prosperity of the Outer Show — The Cares of the In…
  86. 86Chapter III — Further Views Into the Heart of Man, and the Conditio…
  87. 87Chapter IV — The Return of Edward of York
  88. 88Chapter V — The Progress of the Plantagenet
  89. 89Chapter VI — Lord Warwick, With the Foe in the Field and the Traito…
  90. 90Book XII | The Battle of Barnet
  91. 91Chapter II — Sharp Is the Kiss of the Falcon’s Bear
  92. 92Chapter III — A Pause
  93. 93Chapter IV — The Battle
  94. 94Chapter V — The Battle
  95. 95Chapter VI — The Battle
  96. 96Chapter VII — The Last Pilgrims in the Long Procession to the Commo…

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