The Colossus: A Novel

The Colossus: A Novel

CHAPTER I.LOOKING BACK AT EARLY LIFE CHAPTER II.A SLEEPY VILLAGE AND A FUSSY OLD MAN CHAPTER III.ALL WAS DARKNESS CHAPTER IV.A STRANGE REQUEST CHAPTER V.DISSECTING A MOTIVE CHAPTER VI.WAITING AT THE STATION CHAPTER VII.A MOTHER'S AFFECTION CHAPTER VIII.THE DOMAIN OF A GREAT MERCHANT CHAPTER IX.THE INTERVIEWERS CHAPTER X.ROMPED WITH THE GIRL CHAPTER XI.ACKNOWLEDGED BY SOCIETY CHAPTER XII.A DEMOCRACY CHAPTER XIII.BUTTING AGAINST A WALL CHAPTER XIV.A DIFFERENT HANDWRITING CHAPTER XV.TOLD HIM HER STORY CHAPTER XVI.AN AROUSER OF THE SLEEPY CHAPTER XVII.AN OLD MAN WOULD INVEST CHAPTER XVIII.THE INVESTMENT CHAPTER XIX.ARRESTED EVERYWHERE CHAPTER XX.CRIED A SENSATION CHAPTER XXI.A HELPLESS OLD WOMAN CHAPTER XXII.TO GO ON A VISIT CHAPTER XXIII.HENRY'S INCONSISTENCY CHAPTER XXIV.WORE A ROSE ON HIS COAT CHAPTER XXV.IMPATIENTLY WAITING CHAPTER XXVI.TOLD IT ALL CHAPTER XXVII.POINTS OUT HER BROTHER'S DUTY CHAPTER XXVIII.THE VERDICT CHAPTER XXIX.A DAY OF REST CHAPTER XXX.A MOTHER'S REQUEST CHAPTER XXXI.A MOMENT OF ARROGANCE CHAPTER XXXII.A MOST PECULIAR FELLOW CHAPTER XXXIII.THE TIME WAS DRAWING NEAR CHAPTER XXXIV.TOLD HIM A STORY CHAPTER XXXV.CONCLUSION When the slow years of youth were gone and the hastening time of manhood had come, the first thing that Henry DeGolyer, looking back, could call from a mysterious darkness into the dawn of memory was that he awoke one night in the cold arms of his dead mother. That was in New Orleans. The boy's father had aspired to put the face of man upon lasting canvas, but appetite invited whisky to mix with his art, and so upon dead walls he painted the trade-mark bull, and in front of museums he exaggerated the distortion of the human freak. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 15073
Author: Read, Opie Percival
Release Date: Feb 15, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English