Front matter

The Forest Giant

by

ADRIEN LE CORBEAU

Translated from the French by J. H. ROSS

Jonathan Cape ELEVEN GOWER STREET LONDON

FIRST PUBLISHED IN MCMXXIV MADE & PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BUTLER & TANNER LTD. FROME AND LONDON

Contents

CHAP.

1 THE ODYSSEY

2 THE GENUS TREMBLES INTO CONSCIOUSNESS

3 THE KINDLY DARKNESS

4 CONTRASTS WHICH ARE NOT CONTRASTS

5 CAUGHT UP INTO THE STREAM OF LIFE

6 THE LAW OF BALANCE

7 METAMORPHOSES

8 WHAT THE MOON SAW

9 WHEN THE CORSELET SNAPS

10 THE MIRROR OF CHANGELESS TIME

11 THE WHEEL OF LIFE LIVED

12 WHEN THE WOOD-DUST FLOATED IN THE AIR

13 WHAT IS CALLED DEATH

14 THE THEORY OF ETERNAL SLEEPLESSNESS

CONCLUSION: WITHIN A CELL