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Pink and White Tyranny
Harriet Beecher Stowe · translated by Charles T. Brooks
The story revolves around the lives and relationships of a select circle of characters, particularly focusing on John Seymour and his engagement to Lillie Ellis, for her beauty and social charm.
"Pink and White Tyranny" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a society novel. The story revolves around the lives and relationships of a select circle of characters, particularly focusing on John Seymour and his engagement to Lillie Ellis, for her beauty and social charm.
This edition is the English translation by Charles T. Brooks.
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“WHO is that beautiful creature?” said John Seymour, as a light, sylph-like form tripped[2] up the steps of the veranda of the hotel where he was lounging away his summer vacation.
“That! Why, don’t you know, man? That is the celebrated, the divine Lillie Ellis, the most adroit ‘fisher of men’ that has been seen in our days.”
“By George, but she’s pretty, though!” said John, following with enchanted eyes the distant motions of the sylphide.
The vision that he saw was of a delicate little fairy form; a complexion of pearly white, with a cheek of the hue of a pink shell; a fair, sweet, infantine face surrounded by a fleecy radiance of soft golden hair. The vision appeared to float in some white gauzy robes; and, when she spoke or smiled, what an innocent, fresh, untouched, unspoiled look there was upon the face! John gazed, and thought of all sorts of poetical similes: of a “daisy just wet with morning dew;” of a “violet by a mossy stone;” in short, of all the things that poets have made and provided for the use of young gentlemen in the way of falling in love.
Contents
- 01Pink and White Tyranny.
- 02Chapter I. Falling in Love.
- 03Chapter II. What She Thinks of It.
- 04Chapter III. The Sister.
- 05Chapter IV. Preparation for Marriage.
- 06Chapter V. Wedding, and Wedding-Trip.
- 07Chapter VI. Honey-Moon, and After.
- 08Chapter VII. Will She Like It?
- 09Chapter VIII. Spindlewood.
- 10Chapter IX. A Crisis.
- 11Chapter X. Changes.
- 12Chapter XI. Newport; or, the Paradise of Nothing to Do.
- 13Chapter XII. Home À La Pompadour.
- 14Chapter XIII. John’s Birthday.
- 15Chapter XIV. A Great Moral Conflict.
- 16Chapter XV. The Follingsbees Arrive.
- 17Chapter XVI. Mrs. John Seymour’s Party, and What Came of It.
- 18Chapter XVII. After the Battle.
- 19Chapter XVIII. A Brick Turns Up.
- 20Chapter XIX. The Castle of Indolence.
- 21Chapter XX. The Van Astrachans.
- 22Chapter XXI. Mrs. Follingsbee’s Party, and What Came of It.
- 23Chapter XXII. The Spider-Web Broken.
- 24Chapter XXIII. Common-Sense Arguments.
- 25Chapter XXIV. Sentiment v. Sensibility.
- 26Chapter XXV. Wedding Bells.
- 27Chapter XXVI. Motherhood.
- 28Chapter XXVII. Checkmate.
- 29Chapter XXVIII. After the Storm.
- 30Chapter XXIX. The New Lillie.
About this edition
- Author
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Translator
- Charles T. Brooks
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 264 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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