# Thirty Years Since; or, The Ruined Family. A Tale

Author: James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860 [Adapter]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51661

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Thirty+Years+Since%3B+or%2C+The+Ruined+Family.+A+Tale+James&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Most cities are hateful; and, without any disposition to "babble about green fields," it must be owned that each is more or less detestable. Nevertheless, among them all, there is none to be compared, as a whole, to London--none which comprehends within itself, from various causes, so much of the sublime in every sort. Whether we consider its giant immensity of expanse--the wonderful intricacy of its internal structure--the miraculous harmony of its discrepant parts--the grand amalgamation of its different orders, classes, states, pursuits, professions--the mighty aggregate of hopes, wishes, endeavors, joys, successes, fears, pangs, disappointments, crimes, and punishments, that it contai...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/40/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XL.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/39/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/41/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-since-or-the-ruined-family-a-tale-51661/chapters/12/index.md)