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Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete
The title story, "Cumner's Son," introduces us to Colonel Cumner's son, a spirited and adventurous young man who becomes embroiled in a political and cultural crisis in the fictional town of Mandakan.
"Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk" by Gilbert Parker is a collection of short stories. The title story, "Cumner's Son," introduces us to Colonel Cumner's son, a spirited and adventurous young man who becomes embroiled in a political and cultural crisis in the fictional town of Mandakan.
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There was trouble at Mandakan. You could not have guessed it from anything the eye could see. In front of the Residency two soldiers marched up and down sleepily, mechanically, between two ten-pounders marking the limit of their patrol; and an orderly stood at an open door, lazily shifting his eyes from the sentinels to the black guns, which gave out soft, quivering waves of heat, as a wheel, spinning, throws off delicate spray. A hundred yards away the sea spread out, languid and huge. It was under-tinged with all the colours of a morning sunrise over Mount Bobar not far beyond, lifting up its somnolent and massive head into the Eastern sky. “League-long rollers” came in as steady as columns of infantry, with white streamers flying along the line, and hovering a moment, split, and ran on the shore in a crumbling foam, like myriads of white mice hurrying up the sand.
A little cloud of tobacco smoke came curling out of a window of the Residency. It was sniffed up by the orderly, whose pipe was in barracks, and must lie there untouched until evening at least; for he had stood at this door since seven that morning, waiting orders; and he knew by the look on Colonel Cumner’s face that he might be there till to-morrow.
Contents
- 01Introduction
- 02Cumner’s Son
- 03I. The Choosing of the Messenger
- 04II. “Rest at the Koongat Bridge an Hour”
- 05III. The Code of the Hills
- 06IV. By the Old Well of Jahar
- 07V. Choose Ye Whom Ye Will Serve
- 08VI. Concerning the Daughter of Cushnan DI
- 09VII. The Red Plague
- 10VIII. The Choosing of the Dakoon
- 11IX. The Prophet of Peace
- 12The years went by.
- 13The High Court of Budgery-Gar
- 14An Epic in Yellow
- 15Dibbs, R.n.
- 16A Little Masquerade
- 17Derelict
- 18Old Roses
- 19My Wife’s Lovers
- 20The Strangers’ Hut
- 21The Planter’s Wife
- 22Barbara Golding
- 23The Lone Corvette
- 24A Sable Spartan
- 25A Vulgar Fraction
- 26How Pango Wango Was Annexed
- 27An Amiable Revenge
- 28The Blind Beggar and the Little Red Peg
- 29A Friend of the Commune
- 30A Pagan of the South
About this edition
- Author
- Gilbert Parker
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 150 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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