# The Mountebank

Author: Locke, William John, 1863-1930

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8430

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

## Summary

On the occasion of our last meeting when I kept you up to an ungodly hour of the morning with the story of my wretched affairs to which you patiently listened without seeming bored, you were good enough to suggest that I might write a book about myself, not for the sake of vulgar advertisement, but in order to interest, perhaps to encourage, at any rate to stimulate the thoughts of many of my old comrades who have been placed in the same predicament as myself. Well, I can't do it. You're a professional man of letters and don't appreciate the extraordinary difficulty a layman has, not only in writing a coherent narrative, but in composing the very sentences which express the things that he...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountebank-8430/chapters/17/index.md)