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Paul Kelver

Jerome K. Jerome

The story follows the life of Paul Kelver as he navigates the complexities of his childhood and family dynamics, set against the backdrop of a London that fluctuates between fantasy and harsh reality.

"Paul Kelver" by Jerome K. Jerome is a novel. The story follows the life of Paul Kelver as he navigates the complexities of his childhood and family dynamics, set against the backdrop of a London that fluctuates between fantasy and harsh reality.

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IN WHICH THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO CAST THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THIS STORY UPON ANOTHER.

At the corner of a long, straight, brick-built street in the far East End of London—one of those lifeless streets, made of two drab walls upon which the level lines, formed by the precisely even window-sills and doorsteps, stretch in weary perspective from end to end, suggesting petrified diagrams proving dead problems—stands a house that ever draws me to it; so that often, when least conscious of my footsteps, I awake to find myself hurrying through noisy, crowded thoroughfares, where flaring naphtha lamps illumine fierce, patient, leaden-coloured faces; through dim-lit, empty streets, where monstrous shadows come and go upon the close-drawn blinds; through narrow, noisome streets, where the gutters swarm with children, and each ever-open doorway vomits riot; past reeking corners, and across waste places, till at last I reach the dreary goal of my memory-driven desire, and, coming to a halt beside the broken railings, find rest.

Contents

  1. 01Paul Kelver
  2. 02Prologue.
  3. 03Chapter I
  4. 04Chapter II.
  5. 05In Which Paul Makes Acquaintance of the Man with the Ugly Mouth.
  6. 06Chapter III.
  7. 07How Good Luck Knocked at the Door of the Man in Grey.
  8. 08Chapter IV.
  9. 09Chapter V.
  10. 10In Which There Comes by One Bent Upon Pursuing His Own Way.
  11. 11Chapter VI.
  12. 12Chapter VII.
  13. 13Of the Passing of the Shadow.
  14. 14Chapter VIII.
  15. 15How the Man in Grey Made Ready for His Going.
  16. 16Chapter IX.
  17. 17Of the Fashioning of Paul.
  18. 18Chapter X.
  19. 19In Which Paul Is Shipwrecked, and Cast Into Deep Waters.
  20. 20Chapter I
  21. 21Describes the Desert Island to Which Paul Was Drifted.
  22. 22Chapter II.
  23. 23Chapter III.
  24. 24Chapter IV.
  25. 25Leads to a Meeting.
  26. 26Chapter V.
  27. 27How on a Sweet Grey Morning the Future Came to Paul.
  28. 28Chapter VI.
  29. 29Of the Glory and Goodness and the Evil That Go to the Making of Love.
  30. 30Chapter VII.
  31. 31How Paul Set Forth Upon a Quest.
  32. 32Chapter VIII.
  33. 33And How Came Back Again.
  34. 34Chapter IX.
  35. 35The Princess of the Golden Locks Sends Paul a Ring.
  36. 36Chapter X.
  37. 37Paul Finds His Way.

About this edition

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

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