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The Weavers: A Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago - Complete

Gilbert Parker

It revolves around the life of David Claridge, a young Quaker navigating the complexities of his heritage and personal struggles, which are deeply intertwined with historical events and cultural tensions stemming from both English and Egyptian contexts.

"The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete" by Gilbert Parker is a novel. It revolves around the life of David Claridge, a young Quaker navigating the complexities of his heritage and personal struggles, which are deeply intertwined with historical events and cultural tensions stemming from both English and Egyptian contexts.

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The village lay in a valley which had been the bed of a great river in the far-off days when Ireland, Wales and Brittany were joined together and the Thames flowed into the Seine. The place had never known turmoil or stir. For generations it had lived serenely.

Three buildings in the village stood out insistently, more by the authority of their appearance and position than by their size. One was a square, red-brick mansion in the centre of the village, surrounded by a high, redbrick wall enclosing a garden. Another was a big, low, graceful building with wings. It had once been a monastery. It was covered with ivy, which grew thick and hungry upon it, and it was called the Cloistered House. The last of the three was of wood, and of no great size—a severely plain but dignified structure, looking like some council-hall of a past era. Its heavy oak doors and windows with diamond panes, and its air of order, cleanliness and serenity, gave it a commanding influence in the picture. It was the key to the history of the village—a Quaker Meeting-house.

Contents

  1. 01Introduction
  2. 02Note
  3. 03Chapter I. As the Spirit Moved
  4. 04Chapter II. The Gates of the World
  5. 05Chapter III. Banished
  6. 06Chapter IV. The Call
  7. 07Chapter V. The Wider Way
  8. 08Chapter VI. “Hast Thou Never Killed a Man?”
  9. 09“Claridge Effendi!”
  10. 10Chapter VII. The Compact
  11. 11Chapter VIII. For His Soul’s Sake and the Land’s Sake
  12. 12Chapter IX. The Letter, the Night, and the Woman
  13. 13Chapter X. The Four Who Knew
  14. 14Chapter XI. Against the Hour of Midnight
  15. 15Chapter XII. The Jehad and the Lions
  16. 16Chapter XIII. Achmet the Ropemaker Strikes
  17. 17Chapter XIV. Beyond the Pale
  18. 18Chapter XV. Soolsby’s Hand Upon the Curtain
  19. 19Chapter XVI. The Debt and the Accounting
  20. 20Chapter XVII. The Woman of the Cross-Roads
  21. 21Chapter XVIII. Time, the Idol-Breaker
  22. 22Chapter XIX. Sharper Than a Sword
  23. 23Chapter XX. Each After His Own Order
  24. 24Chapter XXI. “There Is Nothing Hidden Which Shall Not Be Revealed”
  25. 25Chapter XXII. As in a Glass Darkly
  26. 26Chapter XXIII. The Tents of Cushan
  27. 27Chapter XXIV. The Questioner
  28. 28“What has thee come to say?”
  29. 29Chapter XXV. The Voice Through the Door
  30. 30Chapter XXVI. “I Owe You Nothing”
  31. 31Chapter XXVII. The Awakening
  32. 32Chapter XXVIII. Nahoum Turns the Screw
  33. 33Chapter XXIX. The Recoil
  34. 34Chapter XXX. Lacey Moves
  35. 35Chapter XXXI. The Struggle in the Desert
  36. 36Chapter XXXII. Forty Stripes Save One
  37. 37Chapter XXXIII. The Dark Indenture
  38. 38Chapter XXXIV. Nahoum Drops the Mask “Claridge Pasha!”
  39. 39Chapter XXXV. The Flight of the Wounded
  40. 40Chapter XXXVI. “Is It Always So—In Life?”
  41. 41Chapter XXXVII. The Flying Shuttle
  42. 42Chapter XXXVIII. Jasper Kimber Speaks
  43. 43Chapter XXXIX. Faith Journeys to London
  44. 44Chapter XL. Hylda Seeks Nahoum
  45. 45Chapter XLI. In the Land of Shinar
  46. 46Chapter XLII. The Loom of Destiny
  47. 47Glossary

About this edition

Author
Gilbert Parker
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
286 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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