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Title: Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune

Author: A. D. Crake


Release date: August 18, 2004 [eBook #13215]
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Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EDWY THE FAIR OR THE FIRST CHRONICLE OF AESCENDUNE ***

Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Æscendune:

A Tale of the Days of Saint Dunstan,

by the Rev. A. D. Crake.

Contents

PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. “THIS IS THE FOREST PRIMEVAL.”
CHAPTER II. THE HOUSE OF ÆSCENDUNE.
CHAPTER III. LEAVING HOME.
CHAPTER IV. LONDON IN THE OLDEN TIME.
CHAPTER V. TEMPTATION.
CHAPTER VI. LOWER AND LOWER.
CHAPTER VII. “THE KING IS DEAD!—LONG LIVE THE KING!”
CHAPTER VIII. THE CORONATION.
CHAPTER IX. GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
CHAPTER X. ELFRIC AND ALFRED.
CHAPTER XI. THE FLIGHT OF DUNSTAN.
CHAPTER XII. AT HIS WORST.
CHAPTER XIII. THE RETURN OF ALFRED.
CHAPTER XIV. EDWY AND ELGIVA.
CHAPTER XV. THE ROYAL GUEST.
CHAPTER XVI. NAKED THOUGH LOCKED IN STEEL.
CHAPTER XVII. THE SLEEP OF PEACE.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE BATTLE.
CHAPTER XIX. EARTH TO EARTH, AND DUST TO DUST.
CHAPTER XX. “AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT.”
CHAPTER XXI. “UNDER WHICH KING? “
CHAPTER XXII. LOVE STRONG AS DEATH.
CHAPTER XXIII. VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.
CHAPTER XXIV. SOW THE WIND, AND REAP THE WHIRLWIND.
CHAPTER XXV. “FOR EVER WITH THE LORD.”