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Title: The Captives

Author: Hugh Walpole

Posting Date: April 19, 2009 [EBook #3601]
Release Date: January, 2003
First Posted: June 6, 2001

Language: English

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The Captives

by

Hugh Walpole

TO

ARNOLD BENNETT

WITH DEEP AFFECTION

"I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible
world may not in part depend on the personal response which any of us
may make to the religious appeal. God Himself, in short, may draw vital
strength and increase of very being from our fidelity. For my own part
I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean,
if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight,
in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it
is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may
withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight--as if there were
something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities
and faithlessness, are needed to redeem; and first of all to redeem our
own hearts from atheisms and fears ..."

WILLIAM JAMES.

CONTENTS

PART I: BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY

I DEATH OF THE REV. CHARLES CARDINAL
II AUNT ANNE
III THE LONDON HOUSE
IV THE CHAPEL

PART II: THE CHARIOT OF FIRE

I THE WARLOCKS
II EXPECTATION
III MAGGIE AND MARTIN
IV MR. CRASHAW
V THE CHOICE
VI THE PROPHET IN HIS OWN HOME
VII THE OUTSIDE WORLD
VIII PARADISE
IX THE INSIDE SAINTS
X THE PROPHET
XI THE CHARIOT OF FIRE

PART III: THE WITCH

I THE THREE VISITS
II PLUNGE INTO THE OTHER HALF
III SKEATON-ON-SEA
IV GRACE
V THE BATTLE OF SKEATON: FIRST YEAR
VI THE BATTLE OF SKEATON: SECOND YEAR
VII DEATH OF AUNT ANNE
VIII DEATH OF UNCLE MATHEW
IX SOUL OF PAUL
X THE REVIVAL

PART IV: THE JOURNEY HOME AGAIN

I THE DARK