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Warlock O' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance

George MacDonald

It delves into the complexities of his relationships, particularly with his father and grandmother, against the backdrop of their ancestral home.

"Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance" by George MacDonald is a novel. It delves into the complexities of his relationships, particularly with his father and grandmother, against the backdrop of their ancestral home.

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He entered the wide kitchen, paved with large slabs of slate. One brilliant gray-blue spot of sunlight lay on the floor. It came through a small window to the east, and made the peat-fire glow red by the contrast. Over the fire, from a great chain, hung a three-legged pot, in which something was slowly cooking. Between the fire and the sun-spot lay a cat, content with fate and the world. At the corner of the fire sat an old lady, in a chair high-backed, thick-padded, and covered with striped stuff. She had her back to the window that looked into the court, and was knitting without regarding her needles. This was Cosmo’s grandmother. The daughter of a small laird in the next parish, she had started in life with an overweening sense of her own importance through that of her family, nor had she lived long enough to get rid of it. I fancy she had clung to it the more that from the time of her marriage nothing had seemed to go well with the family into which she had married. She and her husband had struggled and striven, but to no seeming purpose; poverty had drawn its meshes closer and closer around them. They had but one son, the present laird, and he had succeeded to an estate yet smaller and more heavily encumbered. To all appearance he must leave it to Cosmo, if indeed he left it, in no better condition. From the growing fear of its final loss, he loved the place more than any of his ancestors had loved it, and his attachment to it had descended yet stronger to his son.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I.castle Warlock.
  2. 02Chapter Ii.the Kitchen.
  3. 03Chapter Iii.the Drawing-Room.
  4. 04Chapter Iv.an Afternoon Sleep.
  5. 05Chapter V.the School.
  6. 06Chapter Vi.grannie’s Cottage.
  7. 07Chapter Vii.dreams.
  8. 08Chapter Viii.home.
  9. 09Chapter Ix.the Student.
  10. 10Chapter X.peter Simon.
  11. 11Chapter Xi.the New Schooling.
  12. 12Chapter Xii.grannie’s Ghost Story.
  13. 13Chapter Xiii.the Storm-Guest.
  14. 14Chapter Xiv.the Castle Inn.
  15. 15Chapter Xv.that Night.
  16. 16Chapter Xvi.through the Day.
  17. 17Chapter Xvii.that Same Night.
  18. 18Chapter Xviii.a Winter Idyll.
  19. 19Chapter Xix.an “Interlunar Cave.”
  20. 20Chapter Xx.catch Yer Naig.
  21. 21Chapter Xxi.the Watchmaker.
  22. 22Chapter Xxii.the Luminous Night.
  23. 23Chapter Xxiii.at College.
  24. 24Chapter Xxiv.a Tutorship.
  25. 25Chapter Xxv.the Gardener.
  26. 26Chapter Xxvi.lost and Found.
  27. 27Chapter Xxvii.a Transformation.
  28. 28Chapter Xxviii.the Story of the Knight Who Spoke the Truth.
  29. 29Chapter Xxix.new Experience.
  30. 30Chapter Xxx.charles Jermyn, M. D.
  31. 31Chapter Xxxi.cosmo and the Doctor.
  32. 32Chapter Xxxii.the Naiad.
  33. 33Chapter Xxxiii.the Garden-House.
  34. 34Chapter Xxxiv.catch Your Horse.
  35. 35Chapter Xxxv.pull His Tail.
  36. 36Chapter Xxxvi.the Thick Darkness.
  37. 37Chapter Xxxvii.the Dawn.
  38. 38Chapter Xxxvii.home Again.
  39. 39Chapter Xxxviii.the Shadow of Death.
  40. 40Chapter Xxxix.the Labourer.
  41. 41Chapter Xl.the Schoolmaster.
  42. 42Chapter Xligrannie and the Stick.
  43. 43Chapter Xlii.obstruction.
  44. 44Chapter Xliii.grizzie’s Rights.
  45. 45Chapter Xliv.another Harvest.
  46. 46Chapter Xlv.the Final Conflict.
  47. 47Chapter Xlvi.a Rest.
  48. 48Chapter Xlvii.help.
  49. 49Chapter Xlviii.a Common Miracle.
  50. 50Chapter Xlix.defiance.
  51. 51Chapter L.discovery and Confession.
  52. 52Chapter Li.it Is Naught, Saith the Buyer.
  53. 53Chapter Lii.an Old Story.
  54. 54Chapter Liii.a Small Discovery.
  55. 55Chapter Liv.a Greater Discovery.
  56. 56Chapter Lv.a Great Discovery.
  57. 57Chapter Lvi.mr. Burns.
  58. 58Chapter Lvii.too Sure Comes Too Late.
  59. 59Chapter Lviii.a Little Life Well Rounded.
  60. 60Chapter Lix.a Breaking Up.

About this edition

Author
George MacDonald
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
509 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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