# Following darkness Author: Reid, Forrest, 1875-1947 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75675 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Following+darkness+Reid&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary What is there in this house, in these surroundings, so utterly different from those I was born amongst, that revives a swarm of memories of my childhood and youth? My notes are piled up on the table before me, they have been there for several days, and I have not touched them, though I came here to work. A warm Italian sun floods the stiff and formal garden stretching from my window, with its pale paved walks, its fountain, and dark cypress-trees; but when I shut my eyes, it is quite another garden that I see, and now, when I have at last taken up my pen to write, it is not to fulfil the task I had set myself, but to chatter idly of a boyhood passed under other skies, grayer, softer, and... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER LVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/58/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER LIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/54/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/45/index.md) - [CHAPTER LI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/52/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/43/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/37/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/36/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/35/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/33/index.md) - [book I had chosen was “Twelfth Night,” the influence of Count Tolstoy,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/41/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/38/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/44/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/49/index.md) - [CHAPTER L](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/51/index.md) - [CHAPTER LVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/57/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/50/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER LIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/55/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER LV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/56/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/46/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/39/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/48/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER LII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/53/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/47/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/42/index.md) - [CHAPTER XL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/following-darkness-75675/chapters/40/index.md)