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Carnac's Folly, Complete
The story follows Carnac Grier, the son of a prominent lumber king in Canada, as he navigates his relationships, ambitions, and a complicated life shaped by his upbringing.
"Carnac's Folly, Complete" by Gilbert Parker is a novel. The story follows Carnac Grier, the son of a prominent lumber king in Canada, as he navigates his relationships, ambitions, and a complicated life shaped by his upbringing.
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“Carnac! Carnac! Come and catch me, Carnac!” It was a day of perfect summer and hope and happiness in the sweet, wild world behind the near woods and the far circle of sky and pine and hemlock. The voice that called was young and vibrant, and had in it the simple, true soul of things. It had the clearness of a bugle-call, ample and full of life and all life’s possibilities. It laughed; it challenged; it decoyed.
Carnac heard the summons and did his best to catch the girl in the wood by the tumbling stream, where he had for many an hour emptied out his wayward heart; where he had seen his father’s logs and timbers caught in jams, hunched up on rocky ledges, held by the prong of a rock, where man’s purpose could, apparently, avail so little. Then he had watched the black-bearded river-drivers with their pike-poles and their levers loose the key-logs of the bunch, and the tumbling citizens of the woods and streams toss away down the current to the wider waters below. He was only a lad of fourteen, and the girl was only eight, but she—Junia—was as spry and graceful a being as ever woke the echoes of a forest.
He was only fourteen, but already he had visions and dreamed dreams. His father—John Grier—was the great lumber-king of Canada, and Junia was the child of a lawyer who had done little with his life, but had had great joy of his two daughters, who were dear to him beyond telling.
Contents
- 01Chapter I. In the Days of Childhood
- 02Chapter II. Eleven Years Pass
- 03Chapter III. Carnac’s Return
- 04Chapter IV. The House on the Hill
- 05Chapter V. Carnac as Manager
- 06Chapter VI. Luke Tarboe Has an Offer
- 07Chapter VII. “At Our Price?”
- 08Chapter VIII. John Grier Makes Another Offer
- 09Chapter IX. The Puzzle
- 10Chapter X. Denzil Tells His Story
- 11Chapter XI. Carnac’s Talk with His Mother
- 12Chapter XII. Carnac Says Good-Bye
- 13Chapter XIII. Carnac’s Return
- 14Chapter XIV. The House of the Three Trees
- 15Chapter XV. Carnac and Junia
- 16Chapter XVI. John Grier Makes a Journey
- 17Chapter XVII. The Reading of the Will
- 18Chapter XVIII. A Great Decision
- 19Chapter XIX. Carnac Becomes a Candidate
- 20Chapter XX. Junia and Tarboe Hear the News
- 21Chapter XXI. The Secret Meeting
- 22Chapter XXII. Point to Point
- 23Chapter XXIII. The Man Who Would Not
- 24Chapter XXIV. The Blue Paper
- 25“Who are you, ma’m’selle?”
- 26Chapter XXV. Denzil Takes a Hand in the Game
- 27Chapter XXVI. The Challenge
- 28Chapter XXVII. Exit
- 29Chapter XXVIII. A Woman Writes a Letter
- 30Chapter XXIX. Carnac and His Mother
- 31Chapter XXX. Tarboe Has a Dream
- 32Chapter XXXI. This Way Home
- 33Chapter XXXII. “Halves, Pardner, Halves”
About this edition
- Author
- Gilbert Parker
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 135 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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