The Amazing Marriage

by George Meredith

Credits: George Meredith (author)

Summary

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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

Chapters (47)

  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

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