Mr. Meeson's WillThe Floating Press, 01.06.2012 - 234 Seiten Only a storyteller as preternaturally gifted as action-adventure master H. Rider Haggard could turn a story about a legal battle over publishing rights into a gripping page-turner. Mr. Meeson's Will offers a fascinating glimpse into the legal rights of authors in the nineteenth century -- and a swashbuckling maritime misadventure that comes with a plethora of unpredictable consequences. |
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... heads of the various departments, and sub-heads, and financial secretaries, and readers, and many managers; but what their names were no man knew, because 4 Chapter I - Augusta and Her Publisher.
... heads of the various departments, and sub-heads, and financial secretaries, and readers, and many managers; but what their names were no man knew, because 4 Chapter I - Augusta and Her Publisher.
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... head, his hands were in his pockets, a sacrilegious whistle hovered on his lips, and he opened the door of the sanctum sanctorum of the Meeson establishment with a kick! "How do, uncle?" he said to the Commercial Terror, who 8.
... head, his hands were in his pockets, a sacrilegious whistle hovered on his lips, and he opened the door of the sanctum sanctorum of the Meeson establishment with a kick! "How do, uncle?" he said to the Commercial Terror, who 8.
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... head was going round and round . The poor old soul was just altering her will for the eighteenth time in favor of a brand new charity , highly recommended by Royalty ; and to be suddenly shot from the revered presence of her lawyer out ...
... head was going round and round . The poor old soul was just altering her will for the eighteenth time in favor of a brand new charity , highly recommended by Royalty ; and to be suddenly shot from the revered presence of her lawyer out ...
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... King capital, in the shape of Mr. Meeson, sat alone at dinner in his palatial dining-room at Pompadour. Dinner was over, the powdered footman had departed with stately tread, and the head butler was just placing the decanters of 24.
... King capital, in the shape of Mr. Meeson, sat alone at dinner in his palatial dining-room at Pompadour. Dinner was over, the powdered footman had departed with stately tread, and the head butler was just placing the decanters of 24.
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H. Rider Haggard. and the head butler was just placing the decanters of richly coloured wine before the solitary lord of all. The dinner had been a melancholy failure. Dish after dish, the cost of any one of which would have fed a poor ...
H. Rider Haggard. and the head butler was just placing the decanters of richly coloured wine before the solitary lord of all. The dinner had been a melancholy failure. Dish after dish, the cost of any one of which would have fed a poor ...
Inhalt
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15 | |
Chapter III Augustas Little Sister | 28 |
Chapter IV Augustas Decision | 37 |
Chapter V The RMS Kangaroo | 45 |
Chapter VI Mr Tombey Goes Forward | 57 |
Chapter VII The Catastrophe | 67 |
Chapter VIII Kerguelen Land | 79 |
Chapter XIII Eustace Buys a Paper | 127 |
Chapter XIV At HanoverSquare | 133 |
Chapter XV Eustace Consults a Lawyer | 143 |
Chapter XVI Short on Legal Etiquette | 154 |
Chapter XVII How Augusta was Filed | 162 |
Chapter XVIII Augusta Flies | 172 |
Chapter XIX Meeson V Addison and Another | 178 |
Chapter XX James Breaks Down | 187 |
Chapter IX Augusta to the Rescue | 90 |
Chapter X The Last of Mr Meeson | 100 |
Chapter XI Rescued | 110 |
Chapter XII Southampton Quay | 118 |
Chapter XXI Grant as Prayed | 199 |
Chapter XXII St Georges HanoverSquare | 213 |
Chapter XXIII Meesons Once Again | 225 |
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Addison and Roscoe answered Augusta Attorney-General barrister beautiful began Bill Birmingham boat bowed captain child clerk client counsel course Court dear document door Eustace Meeson evidence executed eyes face feel Fiddlestick fishbone fortune gentleman girl gone hand hansom cab head heart hundred James Short Jeannie Jemima's Vow John Short Johnnie Jonathan Meeson Kangaroo Kerguelen Land Lady Holmhurst learned little Dick little Jeannie living looked Lord Holmhurst Lordship low dress married matter mind Miss Augusta Smithers Miss Smithers never once perhaps photographer plaintiff Ponta Delgada poor pounds present Probate publishing Queen's counsel rose round rush sail sailors ship shoulders shouted sigh sight solicitor Somerset House stood suddenly suppose sure tattooed tell testator thing thought Todd told Tombey took turned uncle Waterloo Station witness woman wonder young lady Zealand