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Prince Otto, a Romance

Robert Louis Stevenson

In the tiny German state of Grünewald, Prince Otto discovers his subjects' discontent and his wife Princess Seraphina's political scheming with the ambitious Baron Gondremark.

"Prince Otto, a Romance" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a novel. In the tiny German state of Grünewald, Prince Otto discovers his subjects' discontent and his wife Princess Seraphina's political scheming with the ambitious Baron Gondremark.

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At last, after so many years, I have the pleasure of re-introducing you to ‘Prince Otto,’ whom you will remember a very little fellow, no bigger in fact than a few sheets of memoranda written for me by your kind hand. The sight of his name will carry you back to an old wooden house embowered in creepers; a house that was far gone in the respectable stages of antiquity and seemed indissoluble from the green garden in which it stood, and that yet was a sea-traveller in its younger days, and had come round the Horn piecemeal in the belly of a ship, and might have heard the seamen stamping and shouting and the note of the boatswain’s whistle. It will recall to you the nondescript inhabitants now so widely scattered:—the two horses, the dog, and the four cats, some of them still looking in your face as you read these lines;—the poor lady, so unfortunately married to an author;—the China boy, by this time, perhaps, baiting his line by the banks of a river in the Flowery Land;—and in particular the Scot who was then sick apparently unto death, and whom you did so much to cheer and keep in good behaviour.

You may remember that he was full of ambitions and designs: so soon as he had his health again completely, you may remember the fortune he was to earn, the journeys he was to go upon, the delights he was to enjoy and confer, and (among other matters) the masterpiece he was to make of ‘Prince Otto’!

Contents

  1. 01To Nelly Van De Grift (Mrs. Adulfo Sanchez, of Monterey)
  2. 02Book I—Prince Errant
  3. 03Chapter I—In Which the Prince Departs on an Adventure
  4. 04Chapter II—In Which the Prince Plays Haroun-Al-Raschid
  5. 05Chapter III—In Which the Prince Comforts Age and Beauty and Delivers a Lecture on Discretion in Love
  6. 06Chapter IV—In Which the Prince Collects Opinions by the Way
  7. 07Book II—Of Love and Politics
  8. 08Chapter I—What Happened in the Library
  9. 09Chapter II—‘On the Court of Grünewald,’ Being a Portion of the Traveller’s Manuscript
  10. 10Chapter III—The Prince and the English Traveller
  11. 11Chapter IV—While the Prince Is in the Ante-Room . . .
  12. 12Chapter V—. . . Gondremark Is in My Lady’s Chamber
  13. 13Chapter VI—The Prince Delivers a Lecture on Marriage, with Practical Illustrations of Divorce
  14. 14Chapter VII—The Prince Dissolves the Council
  15. 15Chapter VIII—The Party of War Takes Action
  16. 16Chapter IX—The Price of the River Farm; in Which Vainglory Goes Before a Fall
  17. 17Chapter X—Gotthold’s Revised Opinion; and the Fall Completed
  18. 18Chapter XI—Providence Von Rosen: Act the First She Beguiles the Baron
  19. 19Chapter XII—Providence Von Rosen: Act the Second She Informs the Prince
  20. 20Chapter XIII—Providence Von Rosen: Act the Third She Enlightens Seraphina
  21. 21Chapter XIV—Relates the Cause and Outbreak of the Revolution
  22. 22Book III—Fortunate Misfortune
  23. 23Chapter I—Princess Cinderella
  24. 24Chapter II—Treats of a Christian Virtue
  25. 25Chapter III—Providence Von Rosen: Act the Last in Which She Gallops Off
  26. 26Chapter IV—Babes in the Wood
  27. 27Bibliographical Postscript to Complete the Story

About this edition

Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
198 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers