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Title: A Modern Chronicle, Volume 1

Author: Winston Churchill

Release Date: October 19, 2004 [EBook #5374]

Language: English

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A MODERN CHRONICLE

By Winston Churchill

CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE SET:

BOOK I.

Volume 1.
I. WHAT'S IN HEREDITY?
II. PERDITA RECALLED
III. CONCERNING PROVIDENCE
IV. OF TEMPERAMENT
V. IN WHICH PROVIDENCE BEEPS FAITH
VI. HONORA HAS A GLIMPSE OF THE WORLD

Volume 2.
VII. THE OLYMPIAN ORDER
VIII. A CHAPTER OF CONQUESTS
IX. IN WHICH THE VICOMTE CONTINUES HIS STUDIES
X. IN WHICH HONORA WIDENS HER HORIZON
XI. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
XII. WHICH CONTAINS A SURPRISE FOR MRS. HOLT

BOOK II

Volume 3.
I. SO LONG AS YE BOTH SHALL LIVE
II. "STAFFORD PARK"
III. THE GREAT UNATTACHED
IV. THE NEW DOCTRINE
V. QUICKSANDS
VI. GAD AND MENI

Volume 4.
VII. OF CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS
VIII. OF MENTAL PROCESSES-FEMININE AND INSOLUBLE
IX. INTRODUCING A REVOLUTIONIZING VEHICLE
X. ON THE ART OF LION TAMING
XI. CONTAINING SOME REVELATIONS

BOOK III

Volume 5.
I. ASCENDI
II. THE PATH OF PHILANTHROPY
III. VINELAND
IV. THE VIKING
V. THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

Volume 6.
VI. CLIO, OR THALIA?
VII "LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"
VIII. IN WHICH THE LAW BETRAYS A HEART
IX. WYLIE STREET
X. THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

Volume 7.
XI. IN WHICH IT IS ALL DONE OVER AGAIN
XII. THE ENTRANCE INTO EDEN
XIII. OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE GATES.
XIV. CONTAINING PHILOSOPHY FROM MR. GRAINGER
XV. THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY

Volume 8.
XVI. IN WHICH A MIRROR IS HELD UP
XVII. THE RENEWAL OF AN ANCIENT HOSPITALITY
XVIII. IN WHICH MR. ERWIN SEES PARIS

A MODERN CHRONICLE

CHAPTER I

WHAT'S IN HEREDITY

Honora Leffingwell is the original name of our heroine. She was born in
the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, at Nice, in France, and she
spent the early years of her life in St. Louis, a somewhat conservative