A GREAT MAN
A FROLIC
BY
ARNOLD BENNETT
AUTHOR OF
'THE GRAND BABYLON HOTEL,' 'ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS,'
'LEONORA,' ETC.
LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1904
TO
MY DEAR FRIEND
FREDERICK MARRIOTT
AND TO
THE IMPERISHABLE MEMORY
OF
OLD TIMES
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER
- I. HIS BIRTH
- II. TOM
- III. HIS CHRISTENING
- IV. AGED TWELVE
- V. MARRONS GLACÉS
- VI. A CALAMITY FOR THE SCHOOL
- VII. CONTAGIOUS
- VIII. CREATIVE
- IX. SPRING ONIONS
- X. MARK SNYDER
- XI. SATIN
- XII. HIS FAME
- XIII. A LION IN HIS LAIR
- XIV. HER NAME WAS GERALDINE
- XV. HIS TERRIBLE QUANDARY
- XVI. DURING THE TEA-MEETING
- XVII. A NOVELIST IN A BOX
- [Pg viii] XVIII. HIS JACK-HORNERISM
- XIX. HE JUSTIFIES HIS FATHER
- XX. PRESS AND PUBLIC
- XXI. PLAYING THE NEW GAME
- XXII. HE LEARNS MORE ABOUT WOMEN
- XXIII. SEPARATION
- XXIV. COSETTE
- XXV. THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
- XXVI. THE NEW LIFE
- XXVII. HE IS NOT NERVOUS
- XXVIII. HE SHORTENS HIS NAME
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