Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - General Fiction

Authors: George Meredith In Year : 1859

Book Language: English

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01. The Inmates of Raynham Abbey
02. Showing How the Fates Selected the Fourteenth Birthday to Try the Strength of the System
03. The Magian Conflict
04. Arson
05. Adrian Plies His Hook
06. Juvenile Stratagems
07. Daphne’s Bower
08. The Bitter Cup
09. A Fine Distinction
10. Richard Passes Through His Preliminary Ordeal, and is the Occasion of an Aphorism
11. In which the Last Act of the Bakewell Comedy is Closed in a Letter
12. The Blossoming Season
13. The Magnetic Age
14. An Attraction
15. Ferdinand and Miranda
16. Unmasking of Master Ripton Thompson
17. Good Wine and Good Blood
18. The System Encounters the Wild Oats Special Plea
19. A Diversion Played on a Penny-Whistle
20. Celebrates the Time-Honoured Treatment of a Dragon by the Hero
21. Richard is Summoned to Town to Hear a Sermon
22. Indicates the Approaches of Fever
23. Crisis in the Apple-Disease
24. Of the Spring Primrose and the Autumnal
25. In which the Hero Takes a Step
26. Records the Rapid Development of the Hero
27. Contains an Intercession for the Heroine
28. Relates How Preparations for Action Were Conducted Under the April of Lovers
29. In which the Last Act of a Comedy Takes the Place of the First
30. Celebrates the Breakfast
31. The Philosopher Appears in Person
32. Procession of the Cake
33: Norsing The Devil
34. Conquest of an Epicure
35. Clare’s Marriage
36. A Dinner-Party at Richmond
37. Mrs. Berry on Matrimony
38. An Enchantress
39. The Little Bird and the Falcon; a Berry to the Rescue!
40. Clare’s Diary
41. Austin Returns
42. Nature Speaks
43. Again the Magian Conflict
44. The Last Scene
45. Lady Blandish to Austin Wentworth

After his wife's desertion, Sir Austin wants to bring up his son according to a strict educational system governing every aspect of his life. However Richard has to make his own mistakes, fall in love, and generally live his own life. This book tells about the clashes between Richard's wish to govern his own life to his father's constant interference. This book was very influential. The leading libraries of the day considered it too frank and sexually explicit and refused to buy it. Later authors including E. M. Forster, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf admired and respected it. - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia