John Inglesant, a Romance
Joseph Henry Shorthouse
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"John Inglesant" is the best known of Mr. Shorthouse’s novels: it is also the most perfect embodiment of this spirit of mysticism in fiction. The hero, whose name gives the title to the book, is a cavalier in the court of King Charles the First. There is an exquisite aroma about his character: he is a gentleman and a saint, a courtier with the soul of an anchorite. He adheres with scrupulous fidelity to the requirements of his order, yet he is haunted with visions of the Divine life: he is a mystic and a man of the world.
The book is a romance of the time of Charles I., and the years immediately following his death, and is cast in the form of the memoirs of John Inglesant, the working-out of whose character forms the most interesting part of a hook, every line of which has its interest. In John Inglesant - educated and trained from his early years at the hands of the Jesuits, and moulded and tuned from the first for the purposes they had in view — the author cleverly paints the conflict of a naturally frank and truthful character, with the more artificial virtues of unquestioning obedience and blind adherence to a cause, however bad, once taken in hand, that the skilful training by these most successful of teachers had superinduced. The book may be said to be divided into two parts, each of which covers a volume [chapters 1-20, 21-39]. In the first, the scene is laid in England, during the last days of the struggle between Charles I. and his Parliament. The second deals with later events in Italy, that took place about the time of the election of Pope Alexander VII; while, interwoven with the later story, is an account of the Molinists and Quietists in Italy, whose short-lived fervour was crushed by the Jesuits, through the arrest of their leader, Michael de Molinos. Throughout the whole, however, runs the thread of John Inglesant’s personal history, which is very cleverly conceived and skilfully blended in.
[The book] expresses ideals that to the majority of us have become mere phrases. Briefly these ideals are, setting aside the question of religion, personal fidelity to a personal sovereign and single-hearted reverence for one woman.
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Introductory Chapter | 19:43 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter I | 24:04 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter II Part 1 | 17:04 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter II Part 2 | 16:29 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter III Part 1 | 11:07 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter III Part 2 | 18:59 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter IV Part 1 | 18:09 | Leído por czandra |
Chapter IV Part 2 | 21:49 | Leído por czandra |
Chapter V | 17:42 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter VI | 22:48 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter VII | 16:12 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter VIII | 17:13 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter IX Part 1 | 19:47 | Leído por ProtoMan |
Chapter IX Part 2 | 21:09 | Leído por ProtoMan |
Chapter X | 26:08 | Leído por ProtoMan |
Chapter XI | 22:27 | Leído por ProtoMan |
Chapter XII Part 1 | 12:05 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XII Part 2 | 22:40 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XIII Part 1 | 10:26 | Leído por InTheDesert |
Chapter XIII Part 2 | 20:32 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XIV Part 1 | 12:44 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XIV Part 2 | 16:14 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XV Part 1 | 19:33 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XV Part 2 | 12:44 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XVI | 14:46 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XVII | 19:53 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XVIII | 16:35 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XIX | 19:00 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XX | 12:27 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXI Part 1 | 21:02 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXI Part 2 | 8:05 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXI Part 3 | 26:06 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXI Part 4 | 19:45 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXII Part 1 | 24:17 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXII Part 2 | 13:06 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXIII | 17:00 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter XXIV | 18:36 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter XXV Part 1 | 21:02 | Leído por Cbteddy |
Chapter XXV Part 2 | 18:42 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXV Part 3 | 25:13 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXVI Part 1 | 21:31 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXVI Part 2 | 19:11 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXVII Part 1 | 18:18 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXVII Part 2 | 24:28 | Leído por Belinda Mc |
Chapter XXVIII | 17:26 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXIX | 25:42 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXX | 24:58 | Leído por Belinda Mc |
Chapter XXXI Part 1 | 14:26 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXXI Part 2 | 15:38 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXXII | 24:47 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXXIII | 25:54 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXXIV Part 1 | 17:19 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXXIV Part 2 | 16:40 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXXV Part 1 | 9:52 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXXV Part 2 | 24:14 | Leído por Jim Locke |
Chapter XXXVI | 19:33 | Leído por Belinda Mc |
Chapter XXXVII Part 1 | 15:40 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXXVII Part 2 | 27:21 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXXVIII Part 1 | 13:08 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXXVIII Part 2 | 17:31 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXXIX Part 1 | 12:53 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |
Chapter XXXIX Part 2 | 25:46 | Leído por Elijah Fisher |