The simple story of three boys and a girl by Sir Walter Besant, London 1884.¹

Contents

Introduction — The Prize of the Golden Apple

Part I — The Making of a Man

1. The Village Green
2. The Forest of Hainault
3. What There is Outside
4. A New Shame
5. The Confessions of a Philosopher
6. The Tyranny of the Thought
7. Samson and Delilah
8. In the Chamber
9. Poet Unto Poet
10. The Teaching of Art
11. The Voice of the People
12. The Great Conspiracy
13. Three Proposals
14. The Banquet
15. Biver’s Legacy

Part II — The Work of a Man

1. The Emancipation of Hector
2. What Money Can Do
3. The Dawn of Greatness
4. The Day of Small Things
5. A New World
6. A First Step
7. Gertrude Holt
8. At Shanghai
9. A Cup of Tea
10. A Second Step
11. A Dazzling Success
12. The Power of Sympathy
13. Tell Me What
14. It is This

Part III — The Reward of the Man

1. A Woman’s Reasons
2. His First Book
3. Olinthus
4. For Allen’s Sake
5. From Will
6. With Allen
7. A Second Victor Hugo
8. Will’s Return
9. The Opinions of a Chinaman
10. John Stephens
11. A Glorious Failure
12. The Prize of the Golden Apple