The Light in the Clearing Author:Irving Bacheller
A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright(1917)
The Spirit of Man is the Candle of the Lord--PROVERBS XX, 27
To My Friend, Thomas R. Proctor, of Utica, Lover of the True Ideals of Democracy, Whose Life Has Been a Shining Example to All Men of Wealth, Honored Gentleman and Philanthropist, at the Gate of the Land of which I have written, Dedicate these Chronicles of that Land, and of it's Great Hero.
- Preface
- Chapter I. The Melon Harvest
- Chapter II. I Meet the Silent Woman and Silas Wright, Jr.
- Chapter III. We Go to Meeting and See Mr. Wright Again
- Chapter IV. Our Little Strange Companion
- Chapter V. In the Light of the Candles
- Chapter VI. The Great Stranger
- Chapter VII. My Second Peril
- Chapter VIII. My Third Peril
- Chapter IX. In Which I Meet Other Great Men
- Chapter X. I Meet President van Buren and Am Cross-Examined by Mr. Grimshaw
- Chapter XI. A Party and--My Fourth Peril?
- Chapter XII. The Spirit of Michael Henry and Others
- Chapter XIII. The Thing and Other Things
- Chapter XIV. The Bolt Falls
- Chapter XV. Uncle Peabody's Way and Mine
- Chapter XVI. I Use My Own Compass at a Fork in the Road
- Chapter XVII. The Man with the Scythe
- Chapter XVIII. I Start in a Long Way
- Chapter XIX. On the Summit
- Epilogue
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