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The Island of Fantasy: A Romance
The story centers around Maurice Roylands, a wealthy yet melancholic young man struggling with feelings of ennui and a sense of purposelessness in life.
"The Island of Fantasy: A Romance" by Fergus Hume is a novel. The story centers around Maurice Roylands, a wealthy yet melancholic young man struggling with feelings of ennui and a sense of purposelessness in life.
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It was eight o’clock on a still summer evening, and, the ladies having retired, two men were lingering in a pleasant, indolent fashion over their wine in the dining-room of Roylands Grange. To be exact, only the elder gentleman was paying any attention to his port, for the young man who sat at the head of the table stared vaguely on his empty glass, and at his equally empty plate, as if his thoughts were miles away, which was precisely the case. Youth was moody, age was cheerful, for, while the former indulged in a brown study, the latter cracked nuts and sipped wine, with a just appreciation of the excellence of both. Judging from this outward aspect of things, there was something wrong with Maurice Roylands, for if reverend age in the presentable person of Rector Carriston could be merry, there appeared to be no very feasible reason why unthinking youth should be so ineffably dreary. Yet woe was writ largely on the comely face of the moody young man, and he joined but listlessly in the jocund conversation of his companion, which was punctuated in a very marked manner by the cracking of filberts.
Contents
- 01The Island of Fantasy.
- 02Chapter I. A Mind Diseased.
- 03Chapter II. De Rerum Parvula.
- 04Chapter III. The Rector’s Romance.
- 05Chapter IV. A Masterpiece of Nature.
- 06Chapter V. Crispin Is Puzzled.
- 07Chapter VI. Sub Rosa.
- 08Chapter VII. Souvent Femme Varie.
- 09Chapter VIII. Endymion.
- 10Chapter IX. The Portrait.
- 11Chapter X. A Modern Ixion.
- 12Chapter XI. The Creed of a Mother-in-Law.
- 13Chapter XII. The New Argonauts.
- 14Chapter XIII. The Past of a Poet.
- 15Chapter XIV. The Devil’s Philosophy.
- 16Chapter XV. The Storm.
- 17Chapter XVI. Melnos.
- 18Chapter XVII. An Island King.
- 19Chapter XVIII. Venus Urania.
- 20Chapter XIX. A Modern Arcadia.
- 21Chapter XX. A Difficult Question.
- 22Chapter XXI. Captain Alcibiades.
- 23Chapter XXII. The Apple of Discord.
- 24Chapter XXIII. Bacchanalia.
- 25Chapter XXIV. Thespian.
- 26Chapter XXV. Olympian.
- 27Chapter XXVI. Beautiful Paris, Evil-Hearted Paris.
- 28Chapter XXVII. The Altar Inscribed Θεόν.
- 29Chapter XVIII. Punic Faith.
- 30Chapter XXIX. A Rolling Stone.
- 31Chapter XXX. Keeping Vigil.
- 32Chapter XXXI. The Battle of Troglodytes.
- 33Chapter XXXII. The Warning of Hephaistos.
- 34Chapter XXXIII. The Invocation of Artemis.
- 35Chapter XXXIV. A Modern Thermopylæ.
- 36Chapter XXXV. A Council of War.
- 37Chapter XXXVI. The Forlorn Hope.
- 38Chapter XXXVII. Under the Union Jack.
- 39Chapter XXXVIII. The Prey of the Gods.
- 40Chapter XXXIX. Justinian’s Revenge.
- 41Chapter XL. Death Pays All Debts.
About this edition
- Author
- Fergus Hume
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 555 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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