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Excerpt: "In one of those green woods which belong so peculiarly to our island (for the Continent has its forests, but England its woods) there lived, a short time ago, a charming little fairy called Nymphalin. I believe she is descended from a younger branch of the house of Mab; but perhaps that may only be a genealogical fable, for your fairies are very susceptible to the pride of ancestry, and it is impossible to deny that they fall somewhat reluctantly into the liberal opinions so much in vogue at the present day."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folklore
Length9 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 27, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.
2PREFACE.
3THE IDEAL WORLD
4CHAPTER I. IN WHICH THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO QUEEN NYMPHALIN.
5CHAPTER II. THE LOVERS.
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6CHAPTER III. FEELINGS.
7CHAPTER IV. THE MAID OF MALINES.
8CHAPTER V. ROTTERDAM.—THE CHARACTER OF THE DUTCH.—THEIR RESEMBLANCE TO
9CHAPTER VI. GORCUM.—THE TOUR OF THE VIRTUES: A PHILOSOPHER’S TALE.
10CHAPTER VII. COLOGNE.—THE TRACES OF THE ROMAN YOKE.—THE CHURCH OF ST.
11CHAPTER VIII. THE SOUL IN PURGATORY; OR LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH.
12CHAPTER IX. THE SCENERY OF THE RHINE ANALOGOUS TO THE GERMAN LITERARY
13CHAPTER X. THE LEGEND OF ROLAND.—THE ADVENTURES OF NYMPHALIN ON THE
14CHAPTER XI. WHEREIN THE READER IS MADE SPECTATOR WITH THE ENGLISH
15CHAPTER XII. THE WOOING OF MASTER FOX.*
16CHAPTER XIII. THE TOMB OF A FATHER OF MANY CHILDREN.
17CHAPTER XIV. THE FAIRY’S CAVE, AND THE FAIRY’S WISH.
18CHAPTER XV. THE BANKS OF THE RHINE.—FROM THE DRACHENFELS TO BROHL.—AN
19CHAPTER XVI. GERTRUDE.—THE EXCURSION TO HAMMERSTEIN.—THOUGHTS.
20CHAPTER XVII. LETTER FROM TREVYLYAN TO ——-.
21CHAPTER XVIII. COBLENTZ.—EXCURSION TO THE MOUNTAINS OF TAUNUS; ROMAN
22CHAPTER XIX. THE FALLEN STAR; OR THE HISTORY OF A FALSE RELIGION.
23CHAPTER XX. GLENHAUSEN.—THE POWER OF LOVE IN SANCTIFIED PLACES.—A
24CHAPTER XXI. VIEW OF EHRENBREITSTEIN.—A NEW ALARM IN GERTRUDE’S
25CHAPTER XXII. THE DOUBLE LIFE.—TREVYLYAN’S FATE.—SORROW THE PARENT OF
26CHAPTER XXIII. THE LIFE OF DREAMS.
27CHAPTER XXIV. THE BROTHERS.
28CHAPTER XXV. THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.—A COMMON INCIDENT NOT BEFORE
29CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH THE READER WILL LEARN HOW THE FAIRIES WERE
30CHAPTER XXVII. THURMBERG.—A STORM UPON THE RHINE.—THE RUINS OF
31CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VOYAGE TO BINGEN.—THE SIMPLE INCIDENTS IN THIS TALE
32CHAPTER XXIX. ELLFELD.—MAYENCE.—HEIDELBERG.—A CONVERSATION BETWEEN
33CHAPTER XXX. NO PART OF THE EARTH REALLY SOLITARY.—THE SONG OF THE
34CHAPTER XXXI. GERTRUDE AND TREVYLYAN, WHEN THE FORMER IS AWAKENED TO THE
35CHAPTER XXXII. A SPOT TO BE BURIED IN.
36CHAPTER THE LAST. THE CONCLUSION OF THIS TALE.