# Esther

Author: Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia), 1810-1886

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74746

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Esther+Stephens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Our every footstep treads upon a grave! The keel of the snowy-pinioned vessel but turns a fleecy furrow while plowing its way over the abodes of death. Earth is but one vast tomb, where sleep, side by side, commingling their dust, the king and peasant, the master and slave, the beautiful and the repulsive. Beneath the iron-clad feet of our swift steeds—beneath the thunder-rush and lightning speed of engines—beneath the quick, firm tread of business men, and beneath the gentle pressure of the daintily-slippered feet of lovely women, lie the mouldering form—the dust of stalwart men and the more delicate clay that was fashioned by the Master hand into childhood, girlhood, womanhood—beauty. W...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/esther-74746/chapters/15/index.md)