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The Poison Tree

by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Epigraph — Chapter I — Nagendra’s Journey by Boat
  3. 3Chapter II — “Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before”
  4. 4Chapter III — Of Many Subjects
  5. 5Chapter IV — Tara Charan
  6. 6Chapter V — Oh! Lotus-Eyed, Who Art Thou?
  7. 7Chapter VI — The Reader Has Cause for Great Displeasure
  8. 8Chapter VII — Haridasi Boisnavi
  9. 9Chapter VIII — The Babu
  10. 10Chapter IX — Surja Mukhi’s Letter
  11. 11Chapter X — The Sprout
  12. 12Chapter XI — Caught at Last
  13. 13Chapter XII — Hira
  14. 14Chapter XIII — No!
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Like to Like
  16. 16Chapter XV — The Forlorn One
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Hira’s Envy
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Hira’s Quarrel. The Bud of the Poison Tree
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Caged Bird
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Descent
  21. 21Chapter XX — Good News
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Surja Mukhi and Kamal Mani
  23. 23Chapter XXII — What Is the Poison Tree?
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — The Search
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Every Sort of Happiness Is Fleeting
  26. 26Chapter XXV — The Fruit of the Poison Tree
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — The Signs of Love
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — By the Roadside
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Is There Hope?
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Hira’s Poison Tree Has Blossomed
  31. 31Chapter XXX — News of Surja Mukhi
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Though All Else Dies, Suffering Dies Not
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — The Fruit of Hira’s Poison Tree
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Hira’s Grandmother
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — A Dark House: A Dark Life
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — The Return
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — Explanation
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — The Simpleton and the Serpent
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — The Catastrophe
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — Kunda’s Tongue Is Loosened
  41. 41Chapter XL — The End
  42. 42Glossary of Hindu Words

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