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The Touchstone of Fortune Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II

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The Touchstone of Fortune Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II

by Charles Major

EN·~8 hours·29 chapters

Chapters

29 total

THE TOUCHSTONE OF FORTUNE

0:09

CHAPTER I - DAUGHTERS AND POVERTY

34:18

CHAPTER II - A MAIDEN ST. GEORGE

40:59

CHAPTER III - IT IS HARD TO BE GOOD

36:09

CHAPTER IV - A SMILE AT THE DEVIL

33:30

CHAPTER V - THE FIGHT AT THE OLD SWAN

35:02

CHAPTER VI - SWEET BETTY PICKERING

33:38

CHAPTER VII - THE EYE OF THE DRAGON

50:43

CHAPTER VIII - IN FEAR OF THE KING

43:49

CHAPTER IX - KIDNAPPED

46:43

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The Touchstone of Fortune Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II

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Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-12-03

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Public domain in the USA.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14242

Subjects

Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction PS

About the author

Charles Major

1856–1913

A small-town Indiana lawyer turned bestselling historical novelist, he became famous for sweeping romances set in Tudor England and for stories rooted in pioneer Indiana. His books helped bring pageantry, adventure, and local history to a wide popular audience at the turn of the twentieth century.

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