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The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green

Cuthbert Bede · 1853

Original text in English.

The first steps of a naive student at Oxford, the target of his fellow students' pranks.

Novel · 12 parts · about 40 000 words · about 2 h 54 of reading

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Contents

  1. IMR. VERDANT GREEN'S RELATIVES AND ANTECEDENTS14 min
  2. IIMR. VERDANT GREEN IS TO BE AN OXFORD-MAN13 min
  3. IIIMR. VERDANT GREEN LEAVES THE HOME OF HIS ANCESTORS17 min
  4. IVMR. VERDANT GREEN BECOMES AN OXFORD UNDERGRADUATE12 min
  5. VMR. VERDANT GREEN MATRICULATES, AND MAKES A SENSATION14 min
  6. VIMR. VERDANT GREEN DINES, BREAKFASTS, AND GOES TO CHAPEL14 min
  7. VIIMR. VERDANT GREEN CALLS ON A GENTLEMAN WHO "IS LICENSED TO SELL"18 min
  8. VIIIMR. VERDANT GREEN'S MORNING REFLECTIONS ARE NOT SO PLEASANT AS HIS EVENING DIVERSIONS18 min
  9. IXMR. VERDANT GREEN ATTENDS LECTURES AND, IN DESPITE OF SERMONS, HAS DEALINGS WITH FILTHY LUCRE13 min
  10. XMR. VERDANT GREEN REFORMS HIS TAILORS' BILLS AND RUNS UP OTHERS. HE ALSO APPEARS IN A RAPID ACT OF HORSEMANSHIP, AND FINDS ISIS COOL IN SUMMER17 min
  11. XIMR. VERDANT GREEN'S SPORTS AND PASTIMES12 min
  12. XIIMR. VERDANT GREEN TERMINATES HIS EXISTENCE AS AN OXFORD FRESHMAN13 min

About this text

Cuthbert Bede († 1889): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 4644). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.

Note on the edition (in French): Première partie seule (1853), d'après une transcription conformée aux premières éditions ; le Project Gutenberg réunit les trois parties parues de 1853 à 1857.

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