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Beaumont's chef-d'oeuvre was, and has remained, illuminating... It follows that to readers of the present work the book of 1835 will seem strangely and wonderfully familiar... Marie will be a book of echoes.
Book Details
Introduction, 1999, by Gerard Fergerson
Publisher's Note
Introduction, by Alvis L. Tinnin
Foreword, by Gustave de Beaumont
Chapter 1. Prologue
Chapter 2. American Women
Chapter 3. Ludovic, of the Departure
Introduction, 1999, by Gerard Fergerson
Publisher's Note
Introduction, by Alvis L. Tinnin
Foreword, by Gustave de Beaumont
Chapter 1. Prologue
Chapter 2. American Women
Chapter 3. Ludovic, of the Departure From Europe
Chapter 4. An American Family
Chapter 5. Marie
Chapter 6. The Baltimore Almshouse
Chapter 7. The Mystery
Chapter 8. The Revelation
Chapter 9. The Test
Chapter 10. Continuation of the Test
Chapter 11. The Test: Episode of Oneda
Chapter 12. The Test: Literature and Fine Arts
Chapter 13. The Riot
Chapter 14. Departure from Civilized America
Chapter 15. The Virgin Forest and the Wilderness
Chapter 16. The Tragedy
Chapter 17. Epilogue
Appendixes:
A. Note on the Social and Political Condition of the Negro Salves and of Free People of Color
B. Note on American Women
C. Note on American Anglophobia
D. Notes on Blue Laws
E. Note on the Indulgence of American Society to Bankrupts
F. Note on Polygamy Among American Indians
G. Note on American Sociability
H. Note on American Crudeness
I. Note on Equality in American Society
J. Note on American Theaters
K. Note on the Present Condition of the Indian Tribes of North America
L. Note on the New York Race Riots of 1834