# The Counterplot

Author: Mirrlees, Hope, 1887-1978

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63935

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Counterplot+Mirrlees&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Plasencia was a square, medium-sized house of red brick, built some sixty years ago, in those days when architects knew a great deal about comfort, but cared so little about line that every house they designed, however spacious, was uncompromisingly a “villa.” Viewed from the front, it was substantial and home-like, and suggested, even in the height of summer, a “merry Christmas” and fire-light glinting off the leaves of holly; from the back, however, it had a look of instability, of somehow being not firmly rooted in the earth—a cumbersome Ark, awkwardly perched for a moment on Ararat, before plunging with its painted wooden crew into the flood, and sailing off to some fantastic port.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/2/index.md)
- [SCENE I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/7/index.md)
- [SCENE I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/12/index.md)
- [SCENE II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/8/index.md)
- [SCENE II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/13/index.md)
- [SCENE I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/6/index.md)
- [SCENE III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/14/index.md)
- [SCENE II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/9/index.md)
- [SCENE III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counterplot-63935/chapters/19/index.md)