The Silver Stallion: A Comedy of Redemption

V Champion at Misadventure 27 VI The Loans of Power 31 VII Fatality the Second 39 VIII How the Princes Bragged 42 IX The Loans of Wisdom 46 X Relative to Gonfal’s Head 49 XI Eco...

XII The Mage Emeritus 61 XIII Economics of Gisèle 67 XIV The Changing That Followed 73 XV Disastrous Rage of Miramon 76 XVI Concerns the Pleiades and a Razor 78 XVII Epitome of...

XX Idolatry of an Alderman 97 XXI The Profits of Pepper Selling 104 XXII Toveyo Dances 110 XXIII Regrettable Conduct of a Corpse 113 XXIV Economics of Yaotl 119 XXV Last Obligat...

XXVII Poictesme Reformed 133 XXVIII Fond Motto of a Patriot 138 XXIX The Grumbler’s Progress 141 XXX Havoc of Bad Habits 145 XXXI Other Paternal Apothegms 149 XXXII Time Gnaws a...

XXXIV Something Goes Wrong: and Why 171 XXXV Guivric’s Journey 175 XXXVI The Appointed Enemy 178 XXXVII Too Many Mouths 182 XXXVIII The Appointed Lover 186 XXXIX One Warden Left...

XLII Generalities at Ogde 207 XLIII Prayer and the Lizard Maids 213 XLIV Fine Cordiality of Sclaug 219 XLV The Gander Also Generalizes 222 XLVI Kerin Rises in the World 229 XLVI...

L Indiscretion of a Bailiff 247 LI The Queer Bird 250 LII Remorse of a Poor Devil 260 LIII Continuation of Appalling Pieties 263 LIV Magic That was Rusty 267 LV The Prince of Da...

LVII Maugis Makes Trouble 283 LVIII Showing that Even Angels May Err 287 LIX The Conversion of Palnatoki 290 LX In the Hall of the Chosen 293 LXI Vanadis, Dear Lady of Reginlief...

HEREWITH BEGINS THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH AND OF THE TRIUMPHING OF THE GREAT LEGEND ABOUT MANUEL THE REDEEMER, WHOM GONFAL REPUDIATED AS BLOWN DUST, AND MIRAMON, AS AN IMPOSTOR,...

THEY relate how Dom Manuel that was the high Count of Poictesme, and was everywhere esteemed the most lucky and the least scrupulous rogue of his times, had disappeared out of h...

NOW the tale is of how Gonfal fared in the South, where the people were Fundamentalists. It is told how the quest was cried; and how, in the day’s fashion, the hand of Morvyth,...

NOW the tale is no more of Gonfal, who was the first to perish of the lords of the Silver Stallion. The tale instead tells that, in the while of Gonfal’s adventuring in Inis Dah...

NOW the tale is again of Coth, and of how Coth went blustering westward to fetch back Dom Manuel into his Poictesme, which, as Coth asserted, skinny women and holy persons and l...

NOW the tale, for one reason and another, does not record the miracle which Yaotl performed. The Gods of Tollan were always apt to be misled by their queer notions of humor. Ins...

NOW the tale is of Guivric of Perdigon, more generally called the Sage, who in the days after Anavalt went into Elfhame was chief of the lords of the Silver Stallion who yet rem...

NOW the tale tells that it was in the winter after Guivric’s encounter with the Sylan that Kerin of Nointel returned into Poictesme to become yet another convert to the great le...

NOW the tale tells that upon the day of the birth of the first son begotten by Count Emmerick, in lawful marriage and with the aid of his own wife Radegonde, there was such a dr...

NOW the tale speaks of the rebellion of Maugis, who was the son of Donander of Évre, the Thane of Aigremont. For Count Manuel’s youngest child, Ettarre, born after her father’s...

NOW the tale is of crippled old Dame Niafer, who had reformed the Poictesme which her husband redeemed, and of the thinking which came upon her in the last days of her life. Unt...