The Cloister and the Hearth

1861

Reade's 1861 novel of fifteenth-century Europe, following Gerard Eliassoen from Holland to Rome and back while the woman he was to marry waits in Tergou. Reade built it out of Erasmus's letters and chronicle sources, and it runs to a hundred chapters.

Author's Preface
Chapter I
Chapter II “The soup is hot,” said Gerard
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII They met the landlord in the passage
Chapter XXXIV “Where be the true men?”
Chapter XXXV Gerard awoke, and found Denys watching him with some anxiety
Chapter XXXVI “In prison, sir; good lack, for what misdeed?”
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
Chapter XL
Chapter XLI
Chapter XLII
Chapter XLIII
Chapter XLIV
Chapter XLV
Chapter XLVI
Chapter XLVII
Chapter XLVIII
Chapter XLIX
Chapter L
Chapter LI
Chapter LII
Chapter LIII
Chapter LIV
Chapter LV
Chapter LVI
Chapter LVII
Chapter LVIII
Chapter LIX Happy the man who has two chain-cables: Merit, and Women
Chapter LX
Chapter LXI
Chapter LXII Gerard returned to consciousness and to despair
Chapter LXIII A dark cloud fell on a noble mind
Chapter LXIV
Chapter LXV
Chapter LXVI
Chapter LXVII
Chapter LXVIII
Chapter LXIX
Chapter LXX
Chapter LXXI
Chapter LXXII The Cloister
Chapter LXXIII The Hearth
Chapter LXXIV The Cloister
Chapter LXXV
Chapter LXXVI The Hearth
Chapter LXXVII
Chapter LXXVIII
Chapter LXXIX
Chapter LXXX The Cloister
Chapter LXXXI The Hearth
Chapter LXXXII “Mistress, they all say he is dead.”
Chapter LXXXIII The Hearth
Chapter LXXXIV The Hearth
Chapter LXXXV The Cloister and the Hearth
Chapter LXXXVI The Cloister and the Hearth
Chapter LXXXVII
Chapter LXXXVIII
Chapter LXXXIX
Chapter XC
Chapter XCI
Chapter XCII
Chapter XCIII
Chapter XCIV
Chapter XCV
Chapter XCVI
Chapter XCVII
Chapter XCVIII
Chapter XCIX
Chapter C