Front matter
Reading edition
"The immortal Ainsworth." Thackeray.
NOVELS
BY WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH
ROOKWOOD
"Gives a vivid picture of the times and places with which he dealt." The New York Herald.
THE RITTENHOUSE PRESS PHILADELPHIA
DICK TURPIN CLEARS HORNSEY TOLL-GATE
PRINTED IN U.S.A. BY ARRANGEMENT WITH GEORGE BARRIE'S SONS
Transcriber's Note
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Archaic and dialect spellings have been retained. Greek text appears as originally printed, but with a mouse-hover transliteration, ταφος.
A table of contents, though not present in the original publication, has been provided below:
MEMOIR
TO MY MOTHER
PREFACE
BOOK I—THE WEDDING RING The Vault The Skeleton Hand The Park The Hall Sir Reginald Rookwood Sir Piers Rookwood The Return An Irish Adventurer An English Adventurer Ranulph Rookwood Lady Rookwood The Chamber of Death The Brothers
BOOK II—THE SEXTON The Storm The Funeral Oration The Churchyard The Funeral The Captive The Apparition
BOOK III—THE GIPSY A Morning Ride A Gipsy Encampment Sybil Barbara Lovel The Inauguration Eleanor Mowbray Mrs. Mowbray The Parting The Philter Saint Cyprian's Cell The Bridal Alan Rookwood Mr. Coates Dick Turpin
BOOK IV—THE RIDE TO YORK The Rendezvous at Kilburn Tom King A Surprise The Hue and Cry The Short Pipe Black Bess The York Stage Roadside Inn Excitement The Gibbet The Phantom Steed Cawood Ferry
BOOK V—THE OATH The Hut on Thorne Waste Major Mowbray Handassah The Dower of Sybil The Sarcophagus
L'ENVOY
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