Eugene Aram

By Lytton, Edward Bulwer

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Title:	Eugene Aram
Author:	Lytton, Edward Bulwer
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: In the country of there is a sequestered hamlet, which I have often sought occasion to pass, and which I have never left without a certain reluctance and regret. It is not only (though this has a remarkable spell over my imagination) that it is the sanctuary, as it were, of a story which appears to me of a singular and fearful interest; but the scene itself is one which requires no legend to arrest the traveller?s attention. I know not in any part of the world, which it has been my lot to visit, a landscape so entirely lovely and picturesque, as that which on every side of the village I speak of, you may survey. The hamlet to which I shall here give the name of Grassdale, is situated in a valley, which for about the length of a mile winds among gardens and orchards, laden with fruit, between two chains of gentle and fertile hills.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Eugene Aram, 1 -- Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1 -- VOL. I, 3 -- BOOK I, 3 -- Chapter I. THE VILLAGE. ITS INHABITANTS. AN OLD MANORHOUSE: AND AN -- ENGLISH FAMILY; THEIR HISTORY, INVOLVING A MYSTERIOUS EVENT, 3 -- Chapter II. A PUBLICAN, A SINNER, AND A STRANGER, 7 -- Chapter III. A DIALOGUE AND AN ALARM. A STUDENT'S HOUSE, 15 -- Chapter IV. THE SOLILOQUY, AND THE CHARACTER, OF A RECLUSE. THE -- INTERRUPTION, 20 -- Chapter V. A DINNER AT THE SQUIRE'S HALL. A CONVERSATION BETWEEN -- TWO RETIRED MEN WITH DIFFERENT OBJECTS IN RETIREMENT. DISTURBANCE -- FIRST INTRODUCED INTO A PEACEFUL FAMILY, 23 -- Chapter VI. THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE STUDENT. A SUMMER Scene ARAM'S -- CONVERSATION WITH WALTER, AND SUBSEQUENT COLLOQUY WITH HIMSELF, 28 -- Chapter VII. THE POWER OF LOVE OVER THE RESOLUTION OF THE -- STUDENT. ARAM BECOMES A FREQUENT GUEST AT THE MANOR?HOUSE. A -- WALK. CONVERSATION WITH DAME DARKMANS. HER HISTORY. POVERTY -- AND ITS EFFECTS, 32 -- Chapter VII. THE PRIVILEGE OF GENIUS. LESTER'S SATISFACTION AT THE -- ASPECT OF EVENTS. HIS CONVERSATION WITH WALTER. A DISCOVERY, 40 -- Chapter IX. THE STATE OF WALTER'S MIND. AN ANGLER AND A MAN OF THE -- WORLD. A COMPANION FOUND FOR WALTER, 43 -- Chapter X. THE LOVERS. THE ENCOUNTER AND QUARREL OF THE RIVALS, 46 -- Chapter XI. THE FAMILY SUPPER. THE TWO SISTERS IN THEIR CHAMBER. A -- MISUNDERSTANDING FOLLOWED BY A CONFESSION. WALTER'S APPROACHING -- DEPARTURE AND THE CORPORAL'S BEHAVIOUR THEREON. THE CORPORAL'S -- FAVOURITE INTRODUCED TO THE READER. THE CORPORAL PROVES HIMSELF A -- SUBTLE DIPLOMATIST, 52 -- Chapter XII. A STRANGE HABIT. WALTER'S INTERVIEW WITH MADELINE. HER -- GENEROUS AND CONFIDING DISPOSITION. WALTER'S ANGER. THE PARTING -- MEAL. CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE UNCLE AND NEPHEW. WALTER -- ALONE. SLEEP THE BLESSING OF THE YOUNG, 61 -- BOOK II, 66 -- Chapter I. THE MARRIAGE SETTLED. LESTER'S HOPES AND SCHEMES. GAIETY -- OF TEMPER A GOOD SPECULATION. THE TRUTH AND FERVOUR OF ARAM'S -- LOVE, 66 -- Chapter II. A FAVOURABLE SPECIMEN OF A NOBLEMAN AND A COURTIER. A -- MAN OF SOME FAULTS AND MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS, 67 -- Chapter III. WHEREIN THE EARL AND THE STUDENT CONVERSE ON GRAVE BUT -- DELIGHTFUL MATTERS. THE STUDENT'S NOTION OF THE ONLY EARTHLY -- HAPPINESS, 70 -- Chapter IV. A DEEPER EXAMINATION INTO THE STUDENT'S HEART. THE VISIT -- TO THE CASTLE. PHILOSOPHY PUT TO THE TRIAL, 72 -- Chapter V. IN WHICH THE STORY RETURNS TO WALTER AND THE -- CORPORAL. THE RENCONTRE WITH A STRANGER, AND HOW THE STRANGER -- PROVES TO BE NOT ALTOGETHER A STRANGER, 79 -- Chapter VI. SIR PETER DISPLAYED. ONE MAN OF THE WORLD SUFFERS FROM -- Eugene Aram -- i