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Birds of Prey
The narrative revolves around Philip Sheldon, a surgeon-dentist recently relocated from his small provincial town to London's Fitzgeorge Street, where he grapples with a failing practice and the weight of his past romantic disappointments.
"Birds of Prey" by M. E. Braddon is a novel. The narrative revolves around Philip Sheldon, a surgeon-dentist recently relocated from his small provincial town to London's Fitzgeorge Street, where he grapples with a failing practice and the weight of his past romantic disappointments.
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"What about?" There are some houses whereof the outward aspect is sealed with the seal of respectability—houses which inspire confidence in the minds of the most sceptical of butchers and bakers—houses at whose area-gates the tradesman delivers his goods undoubtingly, and from whose spotless door-steps the vagabond children of the neighbourhood recoil as from a shrine too sacred for their gambols.
Such a house made its presence obvious, some years ago, in one of the smaller streets of that west-central region which lies between Holborn and St. Pancras Church. It is perhaps the nature of ultra-respectability to be disagreeably conspicuous. The unsullied brightness of No. 14 Fitzgeorge-street was a standing reproach to every other house in the dingy thorough-fare. That one spot of cleanliness made the surrounding dirt cruelly palpable. The muslin curtains in the parlour windows of No. 15 would not have appeared of such a smoky yellow if the curtains of No. 14 had not been of such a pharisaical whiteness. Mrs. Magson, at No. 13, was a humble letter of lodgings, always more or less in arrear with the demands of quarter-day; and it seemed a hard thing that her door-steps, whereon were expended much labour and hearthstone—not to mention house-flannel, which was in itself no unimportant item in the annual expenses—should be always thrown in the shade by the surpassing purity of the steps before No. 14.
Contents
- 01Chapter II.
- 02Chapter III.
- 03Chapter IV.
- 04Chapter V.
- 05Chapter VI.
- 06Book the Second.
- 07The Two Macaires.
- 08Chapter I.
- 09Chapter II.
- 10Chapter III.
- 11Book the Third.
- 12Heaping Up Riches.
- 13Chapter I.
- 14Chapter II.
- 15Chapter III.
- 16Chapter IV.
- 17Chapter V.
- 18Chapter VI.
- 19Chapter VII.
- 20Chapter VIII.
- 21Chapter IX.
- 22Book the Fourth.
- 23Valentine Hawkehurst's Record.
- 24Chapter I.
- 25Chapter II.
- 26Chapter III.
- 27Book the Fifth.
- 28Relics of the Dead.
- 29Chapter I.
- 30Chapter II.
- 31Chapter III.
- 32Chapter IV.
- 33Book the Sixth.
- 34The Heiress of the Haygarths.
- 35Chapter I.
- 36Chapter II.
- 37Chapter III.
- 38Chapter IV.
- 39Chapter V.
- 40Chapter VI.
- 41Book the Seventh.
- 42Charlotte's Engagement.
- 43Chapter I.
- 44Chapter II.
- 45Chapter III.
- 46Chapter IV.
- 47Chapter V.
- 48Chapter VI.
- 49Chapter VII.
- 50Chapter VIII.
- 51The End.
About this edition
- Author
- M. E. Braddon
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 533 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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