# The Dynamiter

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894; Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift, 1840-1914

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/647

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

## Summary

_Gentlemen,—In the volume now in your hands_, _the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime_, _with which it is your glory to have contended_. _It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit_. _Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain_, _where crime preserves some features of nobility_, _and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation_. _Horror_, _in this case_, _is due to Mr. Parnell_: _he sits before posterity silent_, _Mr. Forster’s appeal echoing down the ages_. _Horror is due to ourselves_, _in that we have so long coquetted with political crime_; _not seriously weighing_, _not acutely following it from cause to consequence_; _but with...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dynamiter-647/chapters/1/index.md)