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The Malefactor
The book centers around the themes of personal redemption and societal scandal, exploring the complexities of morality, vengeance, and the human condition through the perspectives of two men: Lovell, who tells the story of another man’s downfall.
"The Malefactor" by E. Phillips Oppenheim is a novel. The book centers around the themes of personal redemption and societal scandal, exploring the complexities of morality, vengeance, and the human condition through the perspectives of two men: Lovell, who tells the story of another man’s downfall.
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Tall and burly, with features and skin hardened by exposure to the sun and winds of many climates, he looked like a man ready to face all hardships, equal to any emergency. Already one seemed to see the clothes and habits of civilization falling away from him, the former to be replaced by the stern, unlovely outfit of the war correspondent who plays the game. They crowded round him in the club smoking room, for these were his last few minutes. They had dined him, toasted him, and the club loving cup had been drained to his success and his safe return. For Lovell was a popular member of this very Bohemian gathering, and he was going to the Far East, at a few hours’ notice, to represent one of the greatest of English dailies.
A pale, slight young man, who stood at this right hand, was speaking. His name was Walter Aynesworth, and he was a writer of short stories—a novelist in embryo.
“What I envy you most, Lovell,” he declared, “is your escape from the deadly routine of our day by day life. Here in London it seems to me that we live the life of automatons. We lunch, we dine, we amuse or we bore ourselves, and we sleep—and all the rest of the world does the same. Passion we have outgrown, emotion we have destroyed by analysis. The storms which shake humanity break over other countries. What is there left to us of life? Civilization ministers too easily to our needs, existence has become a habit. No wonder that we are a tired race.”
Contents
- 01Book I
- 02A Society Scandal
- 03Outside the Pale
- 04A Student of Character
- 05A Delicate Mission
- 06The Gospel of Hate
- 07“Hast Thou Found Me, O Mine Enemy?”
- 08Lord of the Manor
- 09The Heart of a Child
- 10The Sword of Damocles
- 11A Forlorn Hope
- 12Professor Sinclair’s Dancing Academy
- 13Mephistopheles on a Steamer
- 14A Cockney Conspirator
- 15The Moth and the Candle
- 16“Tomorrow morning,” Aynesworth remarked, “we shall land.”
- 17“Devil Take the Hindmost”
- 18The Hidden Hand
- 19Book II
- 20“Mr. Wingrave from America”
- 21The Shadow of a Fear
- 22Juliet Asks Questions
- 23Lady Ruth’s Last Card
- 24Guardian and Ward
- 25Ghosts of Dead Things
- 26Spreading the Nets
- 27“By the bye,” the Marchioness asked him, “have you a Christian name?”
- 28In the Toils
- 29The Indiscretion of the Marchioness
- 30“I Am Misanthropos, and Hate Mankind”
- 31Juliet Gains Experience
- 32Nemesis at Work
- 33Richardson Tries Again
- 34“You saw—who that was?”
- 35“It Was an Accident”
- 36Aynesworth Plans a Love Story
- 37A Deed of Gift
- 38For Pity’s Sake
- 39A Dream of Paradise
- 40The Awakening
- 41Revenge Is—Bitter
- 42The Way of Peace
- 43“Love Shall Make All Things New”
About this edition
- Author
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 249 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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