# A dead man's diary

Author: Kernahan, Coulson, 1858-1943; Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72971

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+dead+man%27s+diary+Kernahan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It has always been a favourite fancy of mine that I should like to die upon some sunny, songful morning, in spring or early summer. The thought of dying in the night, and of finding this thin and aërial something, which I have learned to call "my soul," being driven remorselessly nightward, as Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise; the seeing it in imagination, a spectral, unsubstantial shadow of myself, flitting a-shivering out into the black-wombed darkness, and fumbling with filmy hands that it might clasp the closer around it the warm familiar robe of flesh, only to find that robe fallen away for ever--this thought, I must confess, fills me at all times with an abhorrent loathing and...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/6/index.md)
- [VOLUME XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/35/index.md)
- [VOLUME V.--THIRD EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/25/index.md)
- [VOLUME II.--FOURTH EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/22/index.md)
- [VOLUME VI.--THIRD EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/26/index.md)
- [VOLUME I.--EIGHTH EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/21/index.md)
- [VOLUME IV.--FOURTH EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/24/index.md)
- [VOLUME III.--THIRD EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/23/index.md)
- [VOLUME IX.--THIRD EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/29/index.md)
- [VOLUME VIII.--SECOND EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/28/index.md)
- [VOLUME VII.--THIRD EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/27/index.md)
- [VOLUME XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/31/index.md)
- [VOLUME X.--SECOND EDITION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/30/index.md)
- [VOLUME XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/32/index.md)
- [VOLUME XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/33/index.md)
- [VOLUME XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-dead-man-s-diary-72971/chapters/5/index.md)