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Title: The Thread of Gold

Author: Arthur Christopher Benson

Release Date: October 25, 2009 [EBook #30326]

Language: English

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THE THREAD OF GOLD

BY ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON

FELLOW OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

AUTHOR OF "THE HOUSE OF QUIET"

_Quem locum nosti mihi destinatum?_
_Quo meos gressus regis?_

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W

1912

FIRST EDITION, . . . . . . . . . . November 1905
Reprinted, . . . . . . . . . . . . November 1905
Reprinted, . . . . . . . . . . . . January 1906
Reprinted, . . . . . . . . . . . . October 1906
SECOND EDITION, . . . . . . . . . December 1906
Reprinted, . . . . . . . . . . . . January 1907
THIRD EDITION, . . . . . . . . . . October 1907
Reprinted, . . . . . . . . . . . . November 1907
FOURTH EDITION (1/- net) . . . . . May 1910
Reprinted, . . . . . . . . . . . . October 1910
Reprinted, . . . . . . . . . . . . January 1911
Reprinted, . . . . . . . . . . . . May 1911
Reprinted, . . . . . . . . . . . . July 1912

[Transcriber's note: The source book had no Table of Contents and its
chapters were numbered only, not titled. However, its pages had
running headers which changed with each chapter. Those headers have
been converted to chapter titles, and collected here as the Table of
Contents.]

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction (1906)
Introduction
I. The Red Spring
II. The Deserted Shrine, The Manor House
III. Leucocholy
IV. The Flower
V. The Fens
VI. The Well and the Chapel
VII. The Cuckoo
VIII. Spring-time
IX. The Hare
X. The Diplodocus
XI. The Beetle
XII. The Farm-yard
XIII. The Artist
XIV. Young Love
XV. A Strange Gathering
XVI. The Cripple
XVII. Oxford
XVIII. Authorship
XIX. Hamlet
XX. A Sealed Spirit
XXI. Leisure
XXII. The Pleasures of Work