Hugh Walpole’ s Herries Chronicle – The Complete Collection

Hugh Walpole

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The dramatic Lake District setting welcomes you to the grand life of the Herries family.

Crime and romance mixes with comedy and tragedy as we follow this period drama from the 17th century until the early twentieth century.

Grandeur, drama, and violence have always been at the focal point of the Herries family, staring an abusive husband and father, an adventurous son, and an ambitious daughter with a love for the Lake District’s gorgeous scenery and a burning desire for more than the countryside’s charm.

Proudly republished by Read & Co. Books, Hugh Walpole’ s Herries Chronicle -The Complete Collection is a must-read family saga for fans of historical novels.

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• Historical
• Fiction

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• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 24 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528797894
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Hugh Walpole’ s Herries Chronicle
The Complete Collection
Rogue Herries, Judith Paris, The Fortress, Vanessa, The Bright Pavilions, and Katherine Christian
By
HUGH WALPOLE





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Contents
Hugh Walpole
ROGUE HERRIES
PART I
THE CUCKOO IS NOT ENCLOSED
THE I NN—THE HOUSE
THE MOUNTAIN
FAMILY
THE DEVIL
CHINESE FAIR
THE SEA—FA THER AND SON
CHR ISTMAS FEAST
DEATH OF MARG ARET HERRIES
PART II
’FORTY-FIVE
LAUGHTER OF A SPANIEL
I NTO THE CAVE
WITCH
THE ROCKING WOOD
SIEGE IN FOG
THE PRINCE
PART III
THE WILD MARRIAGE
CANDLELIGHT RE SPECTABILITY
THE W ILD MARRIAGE
THE VOICE
S AGA OF DAVID
I. THE YOUNG SARAH
S AGA OF DAVID
II. THE FIGHT A BOVE WASDALE
HER RIES IN 1760
THE LOVER
MIRABE LL IN FLIGHT
ULDALE
I. FOUNDING OF A FAMILY
PART IV
THE BRIGHT TURRETS OF ILION
RETURN O F A WANDERER
ULDALE
II. FAMILY LIFE
THEY MEE T IN PENRITH
FEB. 4, 1772
PHANTASMAGORIA IN THE HILLS
THEY ARE ALONE A ND ARE HAPPY
DEPARTURE FROM HERRIES
JUDITH PARIS
A PREF ATORY LETTER
PART I
ROGUE'S DAUGHTER
FORECHAPTER
LI FE AT ULDALE
STONE ENDS
SUNWOODS IN COCKERMOUTH
FIREWORKS O VER THE LAKE
THE FUGITIVE
DE ATH OF DAVID
QUARRE L AND FLIGHT
MADAME PARIS
PART II
WATENDLATH
FRANCI S RIDES OVER
THE CRIMSON BIRD
HAPPINE SS IN LONDON
THE HERRIES BALL
MAY 17, 1796
THE HANGING
THE CLIPPING
THE OLD MA N OF THE SEA
TUMBL E DOWNSTAIRS
PART III
THE BIRD OF BRIGHT PLUMAGE
F AMILY PAPERS
ULDALE AGAIN
PAYING A CALL ON MRS. SOUTHEY
G ONE TO EARTH
G HOSTLY IDYLL
WILL HERRIES DINES AT WESTAWAYS
JUD ITH IN PARIS
PALAIS-ROYAL
PART IV
MOTHER AND SON
THE HILLS
JUDITH RETUR NS TO ULDALE
ROUND OF THE MOON
FRANC IS IN LONDON
SPRING 1821
MONEY
MOB
THE CHOICE
THE FORTRESS
PART I
MADAME
THE SHADOW AGA INST THE SKY
AT WESTAWAYS
ADAM’S WORLD
THE SUMMER FAIR
THE BEGINNING OF THE FORTRESS
JUDITH AND AD AM IN LONDON
WESTAWAYS: FA THER AND SON
ENTRY OF THE FORTRESS
PART II
ADAM AND MARGARET
THE BATTLE
T HE CHARTISTS
HISTORY OF ELIZABETH
T HE GOVERNESS
FA MILY LETTERS
HOMECOMI NG IN WINTER
TH E WILD GOOSE
PART III
CUMBERLAND CHASE
UHLA ND’S JOURNAL
WAX FLOWERS AND TH E REVOLUTION
CHILDE ROLAND TO TH E DARK TOWER
EXHIBITION
THE FUNERAL
CLIMAX TO A L ONG SEQUENCE
I. JUDIT H AND WALTER
CLIMAX TO A L ONG SEQUENCE
II. SK IDDAW FOREST
CLIMAX TO A L ONG SEQUENCE
III. IN A DARK HOUSE
PART IV
MOTHER AND SON
BIRT H OF VANESSA
SAYERS V ERSUS HEENAN
SHE VISITS THE FORTRESS FOR T HE LAST TIME
ON CAT BELLS: ESCAPE FROM ECSTASY
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A V ERY OLD LADY
AT VICTORINE’S
BATTLE W ITH PANGLOSS
THE HUNDRE DTH BIRTHDAY
VANESSA
A PREF ATORY LETTER
PART I
THE RASCAL
THE HUNDRE DTH BIRTHDAY
FOUNTAIN AT THE ROADSIDE
HERRIES DRAWING-ROOM
THE SEASHORE
FALL OF THE HOU SE OF ULDALE
WILD NIGHT IN THE HILLS
INSIDE THE FORTRESS
THE DUCHESS OF WREXE’S BALL
PART II
THE HUSBAND
JUBILEE
THE FLITTING
VIOLET BELLAIRS IS PREVENTED
A JOURNAL AND SOME LETTERS
ELL IS IN PRISON
THE GREAT TIM OTHY SCANDAL
VANES SA IN PRISON
ESCAPE INTO DANGER
PART III
THE LOVER
HAPPINESS I N RAVENGLASS
THE KOPJE
YOUNG TOM IN NEWLANDS
STO RM COMING UP
PERFECT LOVE
TIMOTHY BELLAIRS PAYS SOME VISITS
WHIT E WITH SWANS
PART IV
THE GHOST
KALEIDOSCOPE
I. THE FLAME
KALEIDOSCOPE
II. TR IUMPHAL ARCH
S ALLY AND TOM
MEN AT WAR
BELO VED MOUNTAIN
F AMILY DINNER
COUNTRY FAIR
THE EAGLE
THE BRIGHT PAVILIONS
A DEDIC ATORY LETTER
PART I
THE BROTHERS
AN ENEMY
THE BRIG HT PAVILIONS
S YLVIA MASKED
THE MINERS
IN A HOUSE OF LIGH T AND DANGER
BARTHOLOMEW
SATAN I N WATENDLATH
ROBIN HERRIES LOQUITUR: HE LO SES HIS LADY
PART II
THE LOVERS AGAINST GOD
JOURNEY TO TH E DARK TOWER
THE CHILD IN TO THE WOMAN
THE FIGHT BY HAWKSHEAD
THE T HREE PRIESTS
PE RIL IN ESSEX
THE SIN
LONDON GLORY
THE MARTYR
PART III
THE PRISONERS
YO UNG ROSAMUND
THE BURNING
NICHOLAS ENCOUNTERS THE DEVIL AND DEFEATS HIM
CHARTLEY: THE QUEEN ENSLAVES HIM
TIXALL TRAP
THE CHRISTENING
THE INN AT FOTHERINGHAY: T HE STAIRCASE
THE LAST D AYS ON EARTH
THE CRUCIFIX
PART IV
THE ENEMY IN FLIGHT
ASHE S OF LETTERS
THERE SHALL BE N O PAIN THERE
NICHOL AS IN ARMOUR
FLIGHT FR OM A PHANTOM
END IN STORM
THE SU MMER WEDDING
THE QUEEN WAS IN HER PARLOUR
KATHERINE CHRISTIAN
PUBL ISHERS’ NOTE
PART I
THE KING OF STUTTERS
NICHOLAS HERRIES IN HIS HOME
THE MAGICIAN AND HIS LIT TLE DAUGHTER
MUSTE R OF HERRIES
KATHERINE:
BIRTHDAY REMINISCENCE
TWO HALVES OF THE PO ISONED APPLE
THE LAKE
‘THE PEACOC K HAS FLOWN’
BIRTH OF AN IMPORTANT MEMBER OF THE HE RRIES FAMILY
PART II
DEDICATION OF THE HEART
TH IS MY MASTER
THE FLAME S ARE HIDDEN
PORTRAIT OF THE KING
KATHERI NE AT SEDDON
PETER AND HI S CONFESSION
LUCY I N CUMBERLAND
THE MOON IS DARKENED
NICHOLAS SEES THE SUN
PART III
KINSMEN AT WAR
THE BETRAYAL
THE BETRAYED
THE ROCKS
CROMWELL: FLA ME AND CLOUD
BRAVE BANNER S AT MALLORY


Hugh Walpole
Hugh Seymour Walpole was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1884. He was educated at a series of boarding schools in England, followed by Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Walpole’s father hoped he would follow him into the clergy, but after three years as a missionary, in 1909, Walpole resolved to become a man of letters. His first commercial success came in 1911 with the novel Mr Perrin and Mr. Traill , after which Walpole made the acquaintance of writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad, and declared his ambition to become the greatest writer of his era. For the rest of his life, Walpole wrote prolifically. During the twenties he produced more than a novel a year, with The Cathedral (1922) and Wintersmoon (1928) proving to be great successes. In 1930, he began his most popular series of novels with the historical romance Rogue Herries , following it with Judith Paris (1931), The Fortress (1932) and Vanessa (1933). Eventually, he amassed an oeuvre of 36 novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. He died in 1941, aged 57. Despite the fact that Walpole sold enormously well on both sides of the Atlantic, and was praised by many of his contemporaries, he is somewhat forgotten now, in part because he was overshadowed by P. G. Wodehouse and others.


ROGUE HERRIES
First published in 1930


Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle’s proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.
From Whinlatter to Black Combe the clouds are never still. The Tarns like black unwinking eyes watch their chase, and the colours are laid out in patterns on the rocks and are continually changed. The Eagle can see the shadows rise from their knees at the base of Scawfell and Gable, he can see the black precipitous flanks of the Screes washed with rain and the dark purple hummocks of Borrowdale crags flash suddenl y with gold.
So small is the extent of this country that the sweep of the Eagle’s wing caresses all of it, but there is no ground in the world more mysterious, no land at once so bare in its nakedness and so rich in its luxury, so warm with sun and so cold in pitiless rain, so gentle and pastoral, so wild and lonely; with sea and lake and river there is always the sound of running water, and its strong people have their feet in the soil and are independent of all men.
During the flight of the Eagle two hundred years are but as a day—and the life of man, as against all odds he pushes toward immortality, is et ernal . . .


PART I
THE CUCKOO IS NOT ENCLOSED


THE INN—THE HOUSE
A little boy, David Scott Herries, lay in a huge canopied bed, half awake and half asleep.
He must be half awake because he knew where he was—he was in the bedroom of the inn with his sisters, Mary and Deborah; they were in the bed with him, half clothed like himself, fast sleeping. Mary’s plump naked arm lay against his cheek, and Deborah’s body was curled into the hollow of his back and her legs were all confused with his own. He liked that because he loved, nay, worshipped, his sis ter Deborah.
He knew also that he was awake because, lying looking up, he could see the canopy that ran round the top of the bed. It was a dull faded green with a gold thread in it. He could see the room too, very large, with rough mottled