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A Young Man's Year

Anthony Hope

The story revolves around Arthur Lisle, a young barrister who is struggling to find his place within the legal world and society at large.

"A Young Man's Year" by Anthony Hope is a novel. The story revolves around Arthur Lisle, a young barrister who is struggling to find his place within the legal world and society at large.

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It was a dark, dank, drizzly morning in March. A dull mist filled all the air, and the rain drifted in a thin sheet across the garden of the Middle Temple. Everything looked a dull drab. Certainly it was a beastly morning. Moreover—to add to its offences—it was Monday morning. Arthur Lisle had always hated Monday mornings; through childhood, school, and university they had been his inveterate enemies—with their narrow rigorous insistence on a return to work, with the end they put to freedom, to leisure, to excursions in the body or in the spirit. And they were worse now, since the work was worse, in that it was not real work at all; it was only waiting for work, or at best a tedious and weary preparation for work which did not come and (for all that he could see) never would come. There was no reason why it ever should. Even genius might starve unnoticed at the Bar, and he was no genius. Even interest might fail to help a man, and interest he had none. Standing with his hands in the pockets, listlessly staring out of the window of his cell of a room, unable to make up his mind how to employ himself, he actually cursed his means of subsistence—the hundred and fifty pounds a year which had led him into the fatal ambition of being called to the Bar. "But for that it would have been impossible for me to be such an ass," he reflected gloomily, as he pushed back his thick reddish-brown hair from his forehead and puckered the thin sensitive lines of his mouth into a childish pout.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I
  2. 02Of the Middle Temple, Esquire
  3. 03Chapter II
  4. 04Miss Sarradet's Circle
  5. 05Chapter III
  6. 06In Touch with the Law
  7. 07Chapter IV
  8. 08A Grateful Friend
  9. 09Chapter V
  10. 10The Tender Diplomatist
  11. 11Chapter VI
  12. 12A Timely Discovery
  13. 13Chapter VII
  14. 14All of a Flutter
  15. 15Chapter VIII
  16. 16Nothing Venture, Nothing Have!
  17. 17Chapter IX
  18. 18A Complication
  19. 19Chapter X
  20. 20The Hero of the Evening
  21. 21Chapter XI
  22. 22Household Politics
  23. 23Chapter XII
  24. 24Lunch at the Lancaster
  25. 25Chapter XIII
  26. 26Settled
  27. 27Chapter XIV
  28. 28The Battle with Mr. Tiddes
  29. 29Chapter XV
  30. 30The Man for a Crisis
  31. 31Chapter XVI
  32. 32A Shadow on the House
  33. 33Chapter XVII
  34. 34For No Particular Reason!
  35. 35Chapter XVIII
  36. 36Going to Rain!
  37. 37Chapter XIX
  38. 38The Last Entrenchment
  39. 39Chapter XX
  40. 40A Prudent Counsellor
  41. 41Chapter XXI
  42. 42Idol and Devotee
  43. 43Chapter XXII
  44. 44Pressing Business
  45. 45Chapter XXIII
  46. 46Facing the Situation
  47. 47Chapter XXIV
  48. 48Did You Say Mrs.?
  49. 49Chapter XXV
  50. 50The Old Days End
  51. 51Chapter XXVI
  52. 52Rather Romantic!
  53. 53Chapter XXVII
  54. 54In the Hands of the Gods
  55. 55Chapter XXVIII
  56. 56Taking Medicine
  57. 57Chapter XXIX
  58. 58Tears and a Smile
  59. 59Chapter XXX
  60. 60A Variety Show

About this edition

Author
Anthony Hope
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
393 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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