The black robe / Wilkie Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Priesthood--Fiction.

Priesthood.

Chastity, Vow of--Fiction.

Chastity, Vow of.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1881.

Summary:

In The Black Robe, a strikingly original novel from master storyteller Wilkie Collins, what starts out as a night of fun and games turns tragic when a dispute over a card game leads to murder. Desperate to atone for his sin, the perpetrator tries to offer assistance to the victim's family, but instead finds himself enmeshed all the deeper in a web of falsehoods and intrigue. Will he ever be able to extricate himself and move on with his life?

Contents:

Title; Contents; Before the Story; BOOK THE FIRST; Chapter I - The Confidences; Chapter II - The Jesuits; Chapter III - The Introduction to Romayne; Chapter IV - Father Benwell Hits; Chapter V - Father Benwell Misses; Chapter VI - The Order of the Dishes; Chapter VII - The Influence of Stella; Chapter VIII - The Priest or the Woman?; Chapter IX - The Public and the Pictures; Chapter X - Father Benwell's Correspondence; Chapter XI - Stella Asserts Herself; Chapter XII - The General's Family; Chapter XIII - Father Benwell's Correspondence; BOOK THE SECOND; Chapter I - The Sandwich Dance

Chapter II - The Question of MarriageChapter III - The End of the Ball; Chapter IV - In the Small Hours; BOOK THE THIRD; Chapter I - The Honeymoon; Chapter II - Events at Ten Acres; Chapter III - Father Benwell and the Book; Chapter IV - The End of the Honeymoon; Chapter V - Father Benwell's Correspondence; BOOK THE FOURTH; Chapter I - The Breach is Widened; Chapter II - A Christian Jesuit; Chapter III - Winterfield Returns; Chapter IV - Father Benwell's Correspondence; Chapter V - Bernard Winterfield's Correspondence; Chapter VI - The Saddest of All Words; Chapter VII - The Impulsive Sex

Chapter VIII - Father Benwell's CorrespondenceBOOK THE FIFTH; Chapter I - Mrs. Eyreco Urt's Discovery; Chapter II - The Seed is Sown; Chapter III - The Harvest is Reaped; Chapter IV - On the Road to Rome; After the Story; Endnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

1-77652-309-1

OCLC:

809634931