Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• Part One: The Two Poets
• 1 A Provincial Printing Office
• 2 Madame de Bargeton
• 3 A Social Evening and a Riverside Stroll
• 4 Catastrophic Sequels to the Provincial Love
• Part Two: A Great Man in Embryo
• 1 First-Fruits
• 2 Flicoteaux
• 3 Two Varieties of Publishers
• 4 First Friendship
• 5 The Cenacle
• 6 The Flowers of Poverty
• 7 A Newspaper Seen from Outside
• 8 The Sonnets
• 9 Good Advice
• 10 A Third Variety of Publisher
• 11 The Wooden Galleries
• 12 A Publisher's Bookshop in the Wooden Galleries
• 13 A Fourth Variety of Publisher
• 14 Behind the Scenes
• 15 A Use for Druggists
• 16 Coralie
• 17 How a News-sheet is Edited
• 18 The Supper
• 19 An Actress's Apartments
• 20 Last Visit to the Cenacle
• 21 A Variety of Journalist
• 22 Boots can Change One's Way of Life
• 23 The Arcana of Journalism
• 24 Re-enter Dauriat
• 25 The Battle Begins
• 26 Dauriat Pays a Call
• 27 A Study in the Art of Recantation
• 28 Journalistic Grandeurs and Servitudes
• 29 The Playwrights Banker
• 30 A Journalist's Christening Party
• 31 Polite Society
• 32 The Viveurs
• 33 A Fifth Variety of Publisher
• 34 Blackmail
• 35 The Money-Brokers
• 36 A Change of Front
• 37 Finot's Fineses
• 38 The Fatefull Week
• 39 Skulduggery
• 40 Farewells
• Part Three: An Inventors Tribulations
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 The Doleful Confession of a Child of the Age
• 2 Back-kick from a Donkey
• THE HISTORY OF A LAWSUIT
• 3 The Problem at Issue
• 4 A Plucky Wife
• 5 A Judas in the Making
• 6 The Two Coinets
• 7 The First Thunderbolt
• 8 A Glance at Paper Making
• 9 Provincial Solicitors
• 10 A Few Public Lecture on Dishonoured Bills for Those Unable to Meet them
• 11 Lucien under Distraint
• 12 'Your House is on Fire'
• 13 A Contrast in Loyalties
• 14 Keeping the Fire Going
• 15 Climax
• 16 Imprisonment for Debit in the Provinces
• 17 An Obdurate Father
• 18 The Pack Pauses before the Kill
• 19 A Bride for Petit-Claud
• 20 The Cure Has His Say
• THE FATAL MEMBER OF THE FAMILY
• 21 The Prodigal's Return
• 22 An Unexpected Triumph
• 23 How the Triumph Had Been Staged
• 24 A Rare Kind of Devotion
• 25 The Pride of His Province?
• 26 The Snake in the Grass
• 27 Lucien Takes his Revenge
• 28 The Peak of Disaster
• 29 A Last Farewell
• 30 A Chance Encounter
• 31 The Story of a Favourite
• 32 A History Lecture for the Ambitious - by a Disciple of Machiavelli
• 33 A Lecture on Ethics - by a Disciple of Mendoza
• 34 A Spanish Profile
• 35 Why Criminality and Corruption Go Hand in Hand
• 36 On the Brink of Surrender
• 37 The Effect of a Night in Jail
• 38 A day Too Late
• 39 The History of a Business Venture
• 40 Conclusion