A high-spirited young heir battles his inherited temper and a family feud in a Victorian tale of Christian self-conquest.
Books mentioned in The Heir of Redclyffe (16)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare: “CHAPTER 2 If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't. --THE TEMPEST”
Thoughts in Past Years by Isaac Williams: “I sat in solitude; I know not how--I know not why, But round my soul all drearily There was a silent shroud. --THOUGHTS IN PAST YEARS”
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare: “* * * * * He sings several times faster than you'll tell money; he utters them as he had eaten ballads, and all men's ears grow to his tunes. --WINTER'S TALE”
Sintram and His Companions by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: “'Nothing has affected him so much as Sintram,' said Laura.'I never saw”
Thalaba the Destroyer by Robert Southey: “impressions which stirred him profoundly. He was just now enchanted with his first reading of'Thalaba,' where he found all manner of deep”
Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Tasso. Thou meanest with forbearance, prudent, subtle,'Tis that annoys me, for he knows to use Language so smooth and so conditional, That seeming praise from him is actual blame. --GOETHE'S Tasso”
The Analogy of Religion by Joseph Butler: “An interval passed long enough for her not to be alone in her surprise at his absenting himself before he at length made his appearance, just before luncheon, so as to miss the unconstrained morning hours he used so much to enjoy. He found Guy, Charles, and Amy, deep in Butler's Analogy.'Are you making poor little Amy read that?' said he.”
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens: “'Bravo!' cried Charles;'he is so disappointed that it is not Pickwick that he does not know what else to say.'”
King Lear by William Shakespeare: “'"Lavender--steadfastness--Strafford--Cordelia in'King Lear'--the”
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory: “'What! Don't you know the Morte d'Arthur! I thought every one did! Don't”
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare: “'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio, How much I have disabled mine estate, By something showing a more swelling port Than my faint means would grant continuance. --Merchant of Venice”
Lyra Innocentium by John Keble: “The smile of heaven comes on. So waits the Lord behind the veil, His light on frenzied cheek, or pale, To shed when the dark hour is gone. --LYRA INNOCENTIUM”
The Christian Year by John Keble: “CHAPTER 33 From darkness here and dreariness, We ask not full repose. --CHRISTIAN YEAR”
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare: “It is your fault I have loved Posthumus; You bred him as my playfellow; and he is A man worth any woman, over-buys me Almost the sum he pays. --CYMBELINE”
The Baptistery by Isaac Williams: “Around the very place doth brood A strange and holy quietude. --BAPTISTERY”
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni: “The day was chiefly spent in an excursion on the lake, landing at the most beautiful spots, walking a little way and admiring, or while in the boat, smoothly moving over the deep blue waters, gaining lovely views of the banks, and talking over the book with which their acquaintance had begun, "I Promessi Sposi". Never did tourists spend…”
Books that mention The Heir of Redclyffe (2)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her sister eating apples and crying over the Heir of Redclyffe, wrapped up in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa by the sunny window.”
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin: “I've read The Lamplighter, and Scottish Chiefs, and Ivanhoe, and The Heir of Redclyffe, and Cora, the Doctor's Wife, and David Copperfield, and The Gold of Chickaree, and Plutarch's Lives, and Thaddeus of Warsaw, and Pilgrim's Progress, and lots more.”