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The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival
The story centers around William Thornton, an once-ordained clergyman turned infidel, and his daughter Antonia, who assist each other in their struggles within the literary world of London.
"The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival" by M. E. Braddon is a novel. The story centers around William Thornton, an once-ordained clergyman turned infidel, and his daughter Antonia, who assist each other in their struggles within the literary world of London.
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Besides Mrs. Potter, to whom she was warmly attached, Antonia had one friend, an actress at Drury Lane, who had acted in Mr. Thornton's comedy of How to please her, and who had made his daughter's acquaintance at the wings while his play was in progress. Patty Lester was, perhaps, hardly the kind of person a careful father would have chosen for his youthful daughter's bosom friend, for Patty was of the world worldly, and had somewhat lax notions of morality, though there was nothing to be said against her personally. No nobleman's name had ever been bracketed with hers in the newspapers, nor had her character suffered from any intrigue with a brother actor. But she gave herself no airs of superiority over her less virtuous sisters, nor was she averse to the frivolous attentions and the trifling gifts of those ancient beaux and juvenile macaronis who fluttered at the side-scenes and got in the way of the stage-carpenters.
Thornton had not reared his daughter in Arcadian ignorance of evil, and he had no fear of her being influenced by Miss Lester's easy views of conduct.
"The girl is as honest as any woman in England, but she is not a lady," he told Antonia, "and I don't want you to imitate her. But she has a warm heart, and is always good company, so I see no objection to your taking a dish of tea with her at her lodgings once in a way."
Contents
- 01Chapter I.
- 02Grub-Street Scribblers.
- 03Chapter II.
- 04Miss Lester, of the Patent Theatres.
- 05Chapter III.
- 06At Mrs. Mandalay's Rooms.
- 07Chapter IV.
- 08A Morning Call.
- 09Chapter V.
- 10A Serious Family.
- 11Chapter VI.
- 12A Woman Who Could Say No.
- 13Chapter VII.
- 14Pride Conquers Love.
- 15Chapter VIII.
- 16The Love That Follows the Dead.
- 17Chapter IX.
- 18The Sands Run Down.
- 19Chapter X.
- 20A Duty Visit.
- 21Chapter XI.
- 22Antonia's Initiation.
- 23Chapter XII.
- 24"So Run That Ye May Obtain."
- 25Chapter XIII.
- 26In St. James's Square.
- 27Chapter XIV.
- 28"One Thread in Life Worth Spinning."
- 29Chapter XV.
- 30"My Lady and My Love."
- 31Chapter XVI.
- 32Death and Victory.
- 33Chapter XVII.
- 34Sword and Bible.
- 35Chapter XVIII.
- 36"As a Grain of Mustard Seed."
- 37Chapter XIX.
- 38"Choose of Two Loves."
- 39Chapter XX.
- 40"And Cleave Unto the Best."
- 41Epilogue.
About this edition
- Author
- M. E. Braddon
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 375 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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