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The Amazing Marriage

By George Meredith

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Cover: April Love (1855-56), oil on canvas by Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1915)

Carinthia Kirby, a girl raised abroad, marries the extravagant Lord Fleetwood, and the marriage is a mystery to them both. George Meredith's last complete novel, 1895.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus
  2. 2: Mistress Gossip Tells of the Elopement of the Countess of
  3. 3: Continuation of the Introductory Meanderings of Dame
  4. 4: Morning and Farewell to an Old Home
  5. 5: A Mountain Walk in Mist and Sunshine
  6. 6: The Natural Philosopher
  7. 7: The Lady’s Letter
  8. 8: Of the Encounter of Two Strange Young Men and Their
  9. 9: Concerning the Black Goddess Fortune and the Worship of Her,
  10. 10: Small Causes
  11. 11: The Prisoner of His Word
  12. 12: Henrietta’s Letter Treating of the Great Event
  13. 13: An Irruption. of Mistress Gossip in Breach of the
  14. 14: A Pendant of the Foregoing
  15. 15: Opening Stage of the Honeymoon
  16. 16: In Which the Bride from Foreign Parts Is Given a Taste of
  17. 17: Records a Shadow Contest Close on the Foregoing
  18. 18: Down Whitechapel Way
  19. 19: The Girl Madge
  20. 20: Studies in Fog, Gout, an Old Seaman, a Lovely Serpent, and
  21. 21: In Which We Have Further Glimpses of the Wondrous Mechanism
  22. 22: A Right-Minded Great Lady
  23. 23: In Dame Gossip’s Vein
  24. 24: A Kidnapping and No Great Harm
  25. 25: The Philosopher Man of Action
  26. 26: After Some Fencing the Dame Passes Our Guard
  27. 27: We Descend into a Steamer’s Engine-Room
  28. 28: By Concessions to Mistress Gossip a Further Intrusion Is
  29. 29: Carinthia in Wales
  30. 30: Rebecca Wythan
  31. 31: We Have Again to Deal with the Examples of Our Younger Man
  32. 32: In Which We See Carinthia Put in Practice One of Her Old
  33. 33: A Frightful Debate
  34. 34: A Survey of the Ride of the Welsh Cavaliers Escorting the
  35. 35: In Which Certain Changes May Be Discerned
  36. 36: Below the Surface and Above
  37. 37: Between Carinthia and Her Lord
  38. 38: A Dip into the Spring’s Waters
  39. 39: The Red Warning from a Son of Vapour
  40. 40: Record of Minor Incidents
  41. 41: In Which the Fates Are Seen and a Choice of the Refuges
  42. 42: The Retarded Courtship
  43. 43: On the Road to the Act of Penance
  44. 44: Between the Earl, the Countess and Her Brother, and of a
  45. 45: Contains a Record of What Was Feared, What Was Hoped, and
  46. 46: A Chapter of Undercurrents and Some Surface Flashes
  47. 47: The Last Chapter