George MacDonald

Lilith

First published
1895
Length
93,000 words, about 7 hours' reading

Begin reading

His last romance: Mr. Vane passes through an old mirror into a strange world of sleep, death and waking.

Contents

  1. Chapter I. The Library
  2. Chapter II. The Mirror
  3. Chapter III. The Raven
  4. Chapter IV. Somewhere or Nowhere?
  5. Chapter V. The Old Church
  6. Chapter VI. The Sexton’s Cottage
  7. Chapter VII. The Cemetery
  8. Chapter VIII. My Father’s Manuscript
  9. Chapter IX. I Repent
  10. Chapter X. The Bad Burrow
  11. Chapter XI. The Evil Wood
  12. Chapter XII. Friends and Foes
  13. Chapter XIII. The Little Ones
  14. Chapter XIV. A Crisis
  15. Chapter XV. A Strange Hostess
  16. Chapter XVI. A Gruesome Dance
  17. Chapter XVII. A Grotesque Tragedy
  18. Chapter XVIII. Dead or Alive?
  19. Chapter XIX. The White Leech
  20. Chapter XX. Gone!—but How?
  21. Chapter XXI. The Fugitive Mother
  22. Chapter XXII. Bulika
  23. Chapter XXIII. A Woman of Bulika
  24. Chapter XXIV. The White Leopardess
  25. Chapter XXV. The Princess
  26. Chapter XXVI. A Battle Royal
  27. Chapter XXVII. The Silent Fountain
  28. Chapter XXVIII. I Am Silenced
  29. Chapter XXIX. The Persian Cat
  30. Chapter XXX. Adam Explains
  31. Chapter XXXI. The Sexton’s Old Horse
  32. Chapter XXXII. The Lovers and the Bags
  33. Chapter XXXIII. Lona’s Narrative
  34. Chapter XXXIV. Preparation
  35. Chapter XXXV. The Little Ones in Bulika
  36. Chapter XXXVI. Mother and Daughter
  37. Chapter XXXVII. The Shadow
  38. Chapter XXXVIII. To the House of Bitterness
  39. Chapter XXXIX. That Night
  40. Chapter XL. The House of Death
  41. Chapter XLI. I Am Sent
  42. Chapter XLII. I Sleep the Sleep
  43. Chapter XLIII. The Dreams That Came
  44. Chapter XLIV. The Waking
  45. Chapter XLV. The Journey Home
  46. Chapter XLVI. The City
  47. Chapter XLVII. The “Endless Ending”

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