John Inglesant, a Romance


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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.

This novel was loved by J.R.R. Tolkien. - Summary by Various PD sources (19 hr 25 min)

Capítulos

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