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Willing to Die: A Novel

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The story revolves around Ethel Ware, a woman reflecting on her past experiences, particularly surrounding her family dynamics and the introduction of significant figures into her life, such as a mysterious governess and the ominous stranger Mr. Droqville.

"Willing to Die: A Novel" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is a fiction work. The story revolves around Ethel Ware, a woman reflecting on her past experiences, particularly surrounding her family dynamics and the introduction of significant figures into her life, such as a mysterious governess and the ominous stranger Mr. Droqville.

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irst, I must tell you how I intend to relate my story. Having never before undertaken to write a long narrative, I have considered and laid down a few rules which I shall observe. Some of these are unquestionably good; others, I daresay, offend against the canons of composition; but I adopt them, because they will enable me to tell my story better than, with my imperfect experience, better rules possibly would. In the first place, I shall represent the people with whom I had to deal quite fairly. I have met some bad people, some indifferent, and some who at this distance of time seem to me like angels in the unchanging light of heaven.

My narrative shall be arranged in the order of the events; I shall not recapitulate or anticipate.

What I have learned from others, and did not witness, that which I narrate, in part, from the hints of living witnesses, and, in part, conjecturally, I shall record in the historic third person; and I shall write it down with as much confidence and particularity as if I had actually seen it; in that respect imitating, I believe, all great historians, modern and ancient. But the scenes in which I have been an actor, that which my eyes have seen, and my ears heard, I will relate accordingly. If I can be clear and true, my clumsiness and irregularity, I hope, will be forgiven me.

Contents

  1. 01To the Reader.
  2. 02Chapter I.
  3. 03an arrival.
  4. 04Chapter II.
  5. 05our curiosity is piqued.
  6. 06Chapter III.
  7. 07the thief in the night.
  8. 08Chapter IV.
  9. 09my father.
  10. 10Chapter V.
  11. 11the little black book.
  12. 12Chapter VI.
  13. 13a stranger appears.
  14. 14Chapter VII.
  15. 15tasso.
  16. 16Chapter VIII.
  17. 17thunder.
  18. 18Chapter IX.
  19. 19awakened.
  20. 20Chapter X.
  21. 21a sight from the windows.
  22. 22Chapter XI.
  23. 23catastrophe.
  24. 24Chapter XII.
  25. 25our guest.
  26. 26Chapter XIII.
  27. 27meeting in the garden.
  28. 28Chapter XIV.
  29. 29the intruder.
  30. 30Chapter XV.
  31. 31a warning.
  32. 32Chapter XVI.
  33. 33doubts.
  34. 34Chapter XVII.
  35. 35lemuel blount.
  36. 36Chapter XVIII.
  37. 37identified.
  38. 38Chapter XIX.
  39. 39pistols for two.
  40. 40Chapter XX.
  41. 41the wood of plas ylwd.
  42. 42Chapter XXI.
  43. 43the patient at plas ylwd.
  44. 44Chapter XXII.
  45. 45the outlaw.
  46. 46Chapter XXIII.
  47. 47a journey.
  48. 48Chapter XXIV.
  49. 49arrivals.
  50. 50Chapter XXV.
  51. 51the doctor's news.
  52. 52Chapter XXVI.
  53. 53lady lorrimer.
  54. 54Chapter XXVII.
  55. 55what can she mean?
  56. 56Chapter XXVIII.
  57. 57a semi-quarrel.
  58. 58Chapter XXIX.
  59. 59my bouquet.
  60. 60Chapter XXX.

About this edition

Author
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
425 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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