George MacDonald

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood

First published
1867
Length
157,000 words, about 11 hours' reading

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A vicar’s first years in a country parish, told by himself.

Contents

  1. Chapter I. Despondency and Consolation
  2. Chapter II. My First Sunday at Marshmallows
  3. Chapter III. My First Monday at Marshmallows
  4. Chapter IV. The Coffin
  5. Chapter V. Visitors from the Hall
  6. Chapter VI. Oldcastle Hall
  7. Chapter VII. The Bishop’s Basin
  8. Chapter VIII. What I Preached
  9. Chapter IX. The Organist
  10. Chapter X. My Christmas Party
  11. Chapter XI. Sermon on God and Mammon
  12. Chapter XII. The Avenue
  13. Chapter XIII. Young Weir
  14. Chapter XIV. My Pupil
  15. Chapter XV. Dr Duncan’s Story
  16. Chapter XVI. The Organ
  17. Chapter XVII. The Church-Rate
  18. Chapter XVIII. Judy’s News
  19. Chapter XIX. The Invalid
  20. Chapter XX. Mood and Will
  21. Chapter XXI. The Devil in Thomas Weir
  22. Chapter XXII. The Devil in Catherine Weir
  23. Chapter XXIII. The Devil in the Vicar
  24. Chapter XXIV. An Angel Unawares
  25. Chapter XXV. Two Parishioners
  26. Chapter XXVI. Satan Cast Out
  27. Chapter XXVII. The Man and the Child
  28. Chapter XXVIII. Old Mrs Tomkins
  29. Chapter XXIX. Calm and Storm
  30. Chapter XXX. A Sermon to Myself
  31. Chapter XXXI. A Council of Friends
  32. Chapter XXXII. The Next Thing
  33. Chapter XXXIII. Old Rogers’s Thanksgiving
  34. Chapter XXXIV. Tom’s Story

About this digital edition

How the text was made, and the printer's errors corrected

The text is Project Gutenberg’s transcription (ebook #5773), from the public-domain printed edition, made by volunteers.

For this site it was converted to Markdown: Project Gutenberg’s header and licence, the printed page numbers, and the printed table of contents were removed, and the headings were regularised so the book divides into chapters. The words of the text are as Project Gutenberg gives them.

The eight plates come from a scan of the Strahan edition of about 1868 at the Internet Archive (annalsofquietnei00macduoft), with the lines printed under them as their captions. They are unsigned; Robert Barnes illustrated the novel when it ran in the Sunday Magazine in 1865–66.