Diana of the Crossways

Diana of the Crossways

George Meredith, english novelist and poet of the Victorian era (1828-1909)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- DEDICATION

-03- OF DIARIES AND DIARISTS TOUCHING THE HEROINE

-04- AN IRISH BALL

-05- THE INTERIOR OF MR. REDWORTH, AND THE EXTERIOR OF MR. SULLIVAN SMITH

-06- CONTAINING HINTS OF DIANA'S EXPERIENCES AND OF WHAT THEY LED TO

-07- CONCERNING THE SCRUPULOUS GENTLEMAN WHO CAME TOO LATE

-08- THE COUPLE

-09- THE CRISIS

-10- IS EXHIBITED HOW A PRACTICAL MAN AND A DIVINING WOMAN LEARN TO RESPECT ONE ANOTHER

-11- SHOWS HOW A POSITION OF DELICACY FOR A LADY AND GENTLEMAN WAS MET IN SIMPLE FASHION WITHOUT HURT TO EITHER

-12- THE CONFLICT OF THE NIGHT

-13- RECOUNTS THE JOURNEY IN A CHARIOT, WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DIALOGUE

-14- BETWEEN EMMA AND DIANA

-15- TOUCHING THE FIRST DAYS OF HER PROBATION

-16- GIVING GLIMPSES OF DIANA UNDER HER CLOUD BEFORE THE WORLD AND OF HER FURTHER APPRENTICESHIP

-17- INTRODUCES THE HON. PERCY DACIER

-18- TREATS OF A MIDNIGHT BELL, AND OF A SCENE OF EARLY MORNING

-19- THE PRINCESS EGERIA

-20- THE AUTHORESS

-21- A DRIVE IN SUNLIGHT AND A DRIVE IN MOONLIGHT

-22- DIANA A NIGHT-WATCH IN THE CHAMBER OF DEATH

-23- THE YOUNG MINISTER OF STATE

-24- BETWEEN DIANA AND DACIER - THE WIND EAST OVER BLEAK LAND

-25- RECORDS A VISIT TO DIANA FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S GOOD WOMEN

-26- INDICATES A SOUL PREPARED FOR DESPERATION

-27- ONCE MORE THE CROSSWAYS AND A CHANGE OF TURNINGS

-28- IN WHICH A DISAPPOINTED LOVER RECEIVES A MULTITUDE OF LESSONS

-29- CONTAINS MATTER FOR SUBSEQUENT EXPLOSION

-30- DIALOGUE ROUND THE SUBJECT OF A PORTRAIT

-31- SHOWS THE APPROACHES OF THE POLITICAL AND THE DOMESTIC CRISIS IN COMPANY

-32- IN WHICH THERE IS A TASTE OF A LITTLE DINNER AND AN AFTERTASTE

-33- A CHAPTER CONTAINING GREAT POLITICAL NEWS AND THEREWITH

-34- WHEREIN WE BEHOLD A GIDDY TURN AT THE SPECTRAL CROSSWAYS

-35- EXHIBITS THE SPRINGING OF A MINE IN A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

-36- IN WHICH IT IS DARKLY SEEN HOW THE CRIMINAL'S JUDGE MAY BE LOVE'S CRIMINAL

-37- REVEALS HOW THE TRUE HEROINE OF ROMANCE COMES FINALLY TO HER, TIME OF 

-38- IS CONCLUSIVE AS TO THE HEARTLESSNESS OF WOMEN WITH BRAINS

-39- AN EXHIBITION OF SOME CHAMPIONS OF THE STRICKEN LADY

-40- CONVALESCENCE OF A HEALTHY MIND DISTRAUGHT

-41- OF NATURE WITH ONE OF HER CULTIVATED DAUGHTERS AND A SHORT EXCURSION IN ANTI-CLIMAX

-42- WE SEE NATURE MAKING OF A WOMAN A MAID AGAIN, AND A THRICE WHIMSICAL

-43- CONTAINS A REVELATION OF THE ORIGIN OF THE TIGRESS IN DIANA

-44- A FINAL STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY AND RUN INTO HARNESS

-45- NUPTIAL CHAPTER