Armadale
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Chapters
- 1. Introduction 1:17 Free
- 2. Chapter 1: The Travelers 12:50
- 3. Chapter 2: The Solid Side Of The Scotch Character 15:57
- 4. Chapter 3: The Wreck Of The Timber Ship — Part 1 of 2 36:29
- 5. Chapter 3: The Wreck Of The Timber Ship — Part 2 of 2 38:45
- 6. Chapter 1: The Mystery Of Ozias Midwinter — Part 1 of 2 41:52
- 7. Chapter 1: The Mystery Of Ozias Midwinter — Part 2 of 2 44:34
- 8. Chapter 2: The Man Revealed 53:09
- 9. Chapter 3: Day And Night 36:47
- 10. Chapter 4: The Shadow Of The Past 41:33
- 11. Chapter 5: The Shadow Of The Future 33:11
- 12. Chapter 1: Lurking Mischief 31:15
- 13. Chapter 2: Allan As A Landed Gentleman 34:55
- 14. Chapter 3: The Claims Of Society 32:15
- 15. Chapter 4: The March Of Events 36:28
- 16. Chapter 5: Mother Oldershaw On Her Guard 24:02
- 17. Chapter 6: Midwinter In Disguise 17:35
- 18. Chapter 7: The Plot Thickens 37:35
- 19. Chapter 8: The Norfolk Broads 34:05
- 20. Chapter 9: Fate Or Chance? 29:21
- 21. Chapter 10: The House-Maid’s Face 33:50
- 22. Chapter 11: Miss Gwilt Among The Quicksands 25:04
- 23. Chapter 12: The Clouding Of The Sky 12:46
- 24. Chapter 13: Exit 24:58
- 25. Chapter 1: Mrs. Milroy 24:07
- 26. Chapter 2: The Man Is Found 22:39
- 27. Chapter 3: The Brink Of Discovery 35:19
- 28. Chapter 4: Allan At Bay 36:01
- 29. Chapter 5: Pedgift’s Remedy 29:29
- 30. Chapter 6: Pedgift’s Postscript 14:16
- 31. Chapter 7: The Martyrdom Of Miss Gwilt 37:44
- 32. Chapter 8: She Comes Between Them 23:13
- 33. Chapter 9: She Knows The Truth 55:06
- 34. Chapter 10: Miss Gwilt’s Diary — Part 1 of 2 36:48
- 35. Chapter 10: Miss Gwilt’s Diary — Part 2 of 2 39:42
- 36. Chapter 11: Love And Law 22:10
- 37. Chapter 12: A Scandal At The Station 18:57
- 38. Chapter 13: An Old Man’s Heart 41:11
- 39. Chapter 14: Miss Gwilt’s Diary — Part 1 of 2 36:35
- 40. Chapter 14: Miss Gwilt’s Diary — Part 2 of 2 36:56
- 41. Chapter 15: The Wedding-Day — Part 1 of 2 33:50
- 42. Chapter 15: The Wedding-Day — Part 2 of 2 35:23
- 43. Chapter 1: Miss Gwilt’s Diary 28:05
- 44. Chapter 2: The Diary Continued 50:19
- 45. Chapter 3: The Diary Broken Off — Part 1 of 2 44:58
- 46. Chapter 3: The Diary Broken Off — Part 2 of 2 46:40
- 47. Chapter 1: At The Terminus 13:54
- 48. Chapter 2: In The House 23:20
- 49. Chapter 3: The Purple Flask — Part 1 of 2 46:27
- 50. Chapter 3: The Purple Flask — Part 2 of 2 46:50
- 51. Chapter 1: News From Norfolk 11:36
- 52. Chapter 2: Midwinter 4:25
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In acknowledgment of the services which he has rendered to the cause of literature by his "Life of Goldsmith;" and in affectionate remembrance of a friendship which is associated with some of the happiest years of my life.
Readers in general—on whose friendly reception experience has given me some reason to rely—will, I venture to hope, appreciate whatever merit there may be in this story without any prefatory pleading for it on my part. They will, I think, see that it has not been hastily meditated or idly wrought out. They will judge it accordingly, and I ask no more.
Readers in particular will, I have some reason to suppose, be here and there disturbed, perhaps even offended, by finding that "Armadale" oversteps, in more than one direction, the narrow limits within which they are disposed to restrict the development of modern fiction—if they can.
Nothing that I could say to these persons here would help me with them as Time will help me if my work lasts. I am not afraid of my design being permanently misunderstood, provided the execution has done it any sort of justice. Estimated by the clap-trap morality of the present day, this may be a very daring book. Judged by the Christian morality which is of all time, it is only a book that is daring enough to speak the truth.
LONDON, April, 1866.