All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story
By Walter Besant
Length17h 56m
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Consistently setting itself against the cheerless evangelical strain in Victorian philanthropy, All Sorts and Conditions of Men offers a blueprint for the cultural regeneration of Britain's proletariat as Angela and Harry plan a `Palace of Delight' to provide `a little more of the pleasures and graces of life' for the East Enders they have come to know. Indeed, five years after the book's publication, Besant's `generous and glowing imagination' was praised as the inspiration for the real-life `The People's Palace' on the Mile End Road, and All Sorts and Conditions of Men became that rare thing, a work of fiction which made something happen. This book is intended for students of nineteenth-century English literature, history, and the reform movement; the general reader. --This text refers to an alternate edition. (Amazon)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length17 hrs 56 mins
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Publish dateNov 26, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE.
2CONTENTS.
3PROLOGUE.—Part I.
4PROLOGUE.—Part II.
5CHAPTER I. NEWS FOR HIS LORDSHIP.
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6CHAPTER II. A VERY COMPLETE CASE.
7CHAPTER III. ONLY A DRESSMAKER.
8CHAPTER IV. UNCLE BUNKER.
9CHAPTER V. THE CARES OF WEALTH.
10CHAPTER VI. A FIRST STEP.
11CHAPTER VII. THE TRINITY ALMSHOUSE.
12CHAPTER VIII. WHAT HE GOT BY IT.
13CHAPTER IX. THE DAY BEFORE THE FIRST.
14CHAPTER X. THE GREAT DAVENANT CASE.
15CHAPTER XI. THE FIRST DAY.
16CHAPTER XII. SUNDAY AT THE EAST END.
17CHAPTER XIII. ANGELA'S EXPERIMENT.
18CHAPTER XIV. THE TENDER PASSION.
19CHAPTER XV. A SPLENDID OFFER.
20CHAPTER XVI. HARRY'S DECISION.
21CHAPTER XVII. WHAT LORD JOCELYN THOUGHT.
22CHAPTER XVIII. THE PALACE OF DELIGHT.
23CHAPTER XIX. DICK THE RADICAL.
24CHAPTER XX. DOWN ON THEIR LUCK.
25CHAPTER XXI. LADY DAVENANT.
26CHAPTER XXII. DANIEL FAGG.
27CHAPTER XXIII. THE MISSING LINK.
28CHAPTER XXIV. LORD JOCELYN'S TROUBLES.
29CHAPTER XXV. AN INVITATION.
30CHAPTER XXVI. LORD DAVENANT'S GREATNESS.
31CHAPTER XXVII. THE SAME SIGNS.
32CHAPTER XXVIII. HARRY FINDS LIBERTY.
33CHAPTER XXIX. THE FIGUREHEADS.
34CHAPTER XXX. THE PROFESSOR'S PROPOSAL.
35CHAPTER XXXI. CAPTAIN COPPIN.
36CHAPTER XXXII. BUNKER AT BAY.
37CHAPTER XXXIII. MR. BUNKER'S LETTER.
38CHAPTER XXXIV. PROOFS IN PRINT.
39CHAPTER XXXV. THEN WE'LL KEEP COMPANY.
40CHAPTER XXXVI. WHAT WILL BE THE END?
41CHAPTER XXXVII. TRUTH WITH FAITHFULNESS.
42CHAPTER XXXVIII. I AM THE DRESSMAKER.
43CHAPTER XXXIX. THRICE HAPPY BOY.
44CHAPTER XL. SWEET NELLY.
45CHAPTER XLI. BOXING-NIGHT.
46CHAPTER XLII. NOT JOSEPHUS, BUT ANOTHER.
47CHAPTER XLIII. O MY PROPHETIC SOUL!
48CHAPTER XLIV. A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.
49CHAPTER XLV. LADY DAVENANT'S DINNER-PARTY.
50CHAPTER XLVI. THE END OF THE CASE.
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