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Harry Leon Wilson. The Seeker
The Seeker
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE—The Age Of Fable
BOOK TWO—The Age of Reason
BOOK THREE—The Age of Faith
SCENES
CHARACTERS
THE SEEKER
BOOK ONE—THE AGE OF FABLE
CHAPTER I
How the Christmas Saint was Proved
CHAPTER II
An Old Man Faces Two Ways
CHAPTER III
The Cult of the Candy Cane
CHAPTER IV
The Big House of Portents
CHAPTER V
The Life of Crime is Appraised and Chosen
CHAPTER VI
The Garden of Truth and the Perfect Father
CHAPTER VII
The Superlative Cousin Bill J
CHAPTER VIII
Searching the Scriptures
CHAPTER IX
On Surviving the Idols We Build
CHAPTER X
The Passing of the Gratcher; and Another
CHAPTER XI
The Strong Person's Narrative
CHAPTER XII
A New Theory of a Certain Wicked Man
BOOK TWO—THE AGE OF REASON
CHAPTER I
The Regrettable Dementia of a Convalescent
CHAPTER II
Further Distressing Fantasies of a Clouded Mind
CHAPTER III
Reason Is Again Enthroned
CHAPTER IV
A Few Letters
CHAPTER V
"Is the Hand of the Lord Waxed Short?"
CHAPTER VI
In the Folly of His Youth
BOOK THREE—The Age of Faith
CHAPTER I
The Perverse Behaviour of an Old Man and a Young Man
CHAPTER II
How a Brother was Different
CHAPTER III
How Edom was Favoured of God and Mammon
CHAPTER IV
The Winning of Browett
CHAPTER V
A Belated Martyrdom
CHAPTER VI
The Walls of St. Antipas Fall at the Third Blast
CHAPTER VII
There Entereth the Serpent of Inappreciation
CHAPTER VIII
The Apple of Doubt Is Nibbled
CHAPTER IX
Sinful Perverseness of the Natural Woman
CHAPTER X
The Reason of a Woman Who Had No Reason
CHAPTER XI
The Remorse of Wondering Nancy
CHAPTER XII
The Flexible Mind of a Pleased Husband
CHAPTER XIII
The Wheels within Wheels of the Great Machine
CHAPTER XIV
The Ineffective Message
CHAPTER XV
The Woman at the End of the Path
CHAPTER XVI
In Which the Mirror is Held up to Human Nature
CHAPTER XVII
For the Sake of Nancy
CHAPTER XVIII
The Fell Finger of Calumny Seems to be Agreeably Diverted
CHAPTER XIX
A Mere Bit of Gossip
