Miranda of the balcony : a story / A. E. W. Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mason, A. E. W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conflict of generations--Drama.

Conflict of generations.

Youth--Drama.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland, [New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1899.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Romeo and Juliet have got nothing on Miranda Warriner and Luke Charnock. Although every sign seems to point to these lovers'' fated union, a series of increasingly insurmountable obstacles seem to be conspiring to keep them apart -- many of which stem from the misdeeds of Miranda''s late husband Ralph.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Chapter I - In Which a Short-Sighted Taxidermist from Tangier Makes a Discovery Upon Rosevear; Chapter II - Presents the Hero in the Unheroic Attitude of a Spectator; Chapter III - Treats of a Gentleman with an Agreeable Countenance, and of a Woman''s Face in a Mirror; Chapter IV - Treats of the First Meeting Between Charnock and Miranda; Chapter V - Wherein Charnock and Miranda Improve Their Acquaintanceship in a Balcony; Chapter VI - While Charnock Builds Castles in Spain, Miranda Returns There

Chapter VII - In Which Major Wilbraham Describes the Steps by Which He Attained His Majority, and Gives Miranda Some Particular InformationChapter VIII - Explains the Mystery of the ""Tarifa''s"" Cargo; Chapter IX - Shows the Use Which a Blind Man May Make of a Dark Night a Week; Chapter X - M. Fournier Expounds the Advantages Which Each Sex Has over the Other; Chapter XI - In Which Miranda Adopts a New Line of Conduct and the Major Expresses Some Discontent; Chapter XII - The Hero, Like All Heroes, Finds Himself in a Fog; Chapter XIII - Wherein the Hero''s Perplexities Increase

Chapter XIV - Miranda Professes Regret for a Practical JokeChapter XV - In Which the Major Loses His Temper and Recovers It; Chapter XVI - Explains Why Charnock Saw Miranda''s Face in His Mirror; Chapter XVII - Shows How a Tombstone May Convince When Arguments Fail; Chapter XVIII - In Which the Taxidermist and a Basha Prevail over a Blind Man; Chapter XIX - Tells of Charnock''s Wanderings in Morocco and of a Walnut-Wood Door; Chapter XX - Charnock, Like the Taxidermist, Finds Warriner Anything but a Comfortable Companion; Chapter XXI - Completes the Journeyings of this Incongruous Couple

Chapter XXII - In Which Charnock Astonishes Ralph WarrinerChapter XXIII - Relates a Second Meeting Between Charnock and Miranda; Chapter XXIV - A Mist in the Channel Ends, as it Began, the Book

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 19, 2014).

ISBN:

1-77658-322-1

OCLC:

887505670