Donal Grant

1883

MacDonald's 1883 novel, a sequel of sorts to Sir Gibbie. Donal Grant, a shepherd turned scholar, walks out of his glen after a disappointment in love and takes a tutor's post at Castle Graham, where the earl keeps to his room, a door has been plastered over, and a passage in the wall carries music no one will explain. Eighty-four chapters, much of the dialogue in Scots.

Chapter I Foot-Faring
Chapter II A Spiritual Foot-Pad
Chapter III The Moor
Chapter IV The Town
Chapter V The Cobbler
Chapter VI Doory
Chapter VII A Sunday
Chapter VIII The Gate
Chapter IX The Morven Arms
Chapter X The Parish Clergyman
Chapter XI The Earl
Chapter XII The Castle
Chapter XIII A Sound
Chapter XIV The Schoolroom
Chapter XV Horse and Man
Chapter XVI Colloquies
Chapter XVII Lady Arctura
Chapter XVIII A Clash
Chapter XIX The Factor
Chapter XX The Old Garden
Chapter XXI A First Meeting
Chapter XXII A Talk About Ghosts
Chapter XXIII A Tradition of the Castle
Chapter XXIV Stephen Kennedy
Chapter XXV Evasion
Chapter XXVI Confrontment
Chapter XXVII The Soul of the Old Garden
Chapter XXVIII A Presence Yet Not a Presence
Chapter XXIX Eppy Again
Chapter XXX Lord Morven
Chapter XXXI Bewilderment
Chapter XXXII The Second Dinner with the Earl
Chapter XXXIII The Housekeeper’s Room
Chapter XXXIV Cobbler and Castle
Chapter XXXV The Earl’s Bedchamber
Chapter XXXVI A Night-Watch
Chapter XXXVII Lord Forgue and Lady Arctura
Chapter XXXVIII Arctura and Sophia
Chapter XXXIX The Castle-Roof
Chapter XL A Religion-Lesson
Chapter XLI The Music-Nest
Chapter XLII Communism
Chapter XLIII Eppy and Kennedy
Chapter XLIV High and Low
Chapter XLV A Last Encounter
Chapter XLVI A Horrible Story
Chapter XLVII Morven House
Chapter XLVIII Paternal Revenge
Chapter XLIX Filial Response
Chapter L A South-Easterly Wind
Chapter LI A Dream
Chapter LII Investigation
Chapter LIII Mistress Brookes upon the Earl
Chapter LIV Lady Arctura’s Room
Chapter LV Her Bed-Chamber
Chapter LVI The Lost Room
Chapter LVII The Housekeeper’s Room
Chapter LVIII A Soul Diseased
Chapter LIX Dust to Dust
Chapter LX A Lesson About Death
Chapter LXI The Bureau
Chapter LXII The Crypt
Chapter LXIII The Closet
Chapter LXIV The Garland-Room
Chapter LXV The Wall
Chapter LXVI Progress and Change
Chapter LXVII The Breakfast-Room
Chapter LXVIII Larkie
Chapter LXIX The Sick-Chamber
Chapter LXX A Plot
Chapter LXXI Glashgar
Chapter LXXII Sent, Not Called
Chapter LXXIII In the Night
Chapter LXXIV A Moral Fungus
Chapter LXXV The Porch of Hades
Chapter LXXVI The Angel of the Lord
Chapter LXXVII The Angel of the Devil
Chapter LXXVIII Restoration
Chapter LXXIX A Slow Transition
Chapter LXXX Away-Faring
Chapter LXXXI A Will and a Wedding
Chapter LXXXII The Will
Chapter LXXXIII Insight
Chapter LXXXIV Morven House