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The Man Who Laughs
L'homme Qui Rit: A Romance of English History
(1869)
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Part I: Book I: Night Not So Black As Man
Book II: The Hooker At Sea
- Ch. I: Superhuman Laws
- Ch. II: Our First Rough Sketches Filled In
- Ch. III: Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea
- Ch. IV: A Cloud Different from the Others Enters on the Scene
- Ch.V: Hardquanonne
- Ch. VI: They Think that Help is at Hand
- Ch.VII: Superhuman Horrors
- Ch. VIII: Nix et Nox
- Ch. IX: The Charge Confided to a Raging Sea
- Ch. X: The Colossal Savage, the Storm
- Ch. XI: The Caskets
- Ch. XII: Face to Face with the Rock
- Ch. XIII: Face to Face with Night
- Ch. XIV: Ortach
- Ch. XV: Portentosum Mare
- Ch. XVI: The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence
- Ch. XVII: The Last Resource
- Ch. XVIII: The Highest Resource
Book III: The Child in the Shadow
Part II: Book I: The Everlasting Presence of the Past:
- Ch. I: Lord Clancharlie
- Ch. II: Lord David Dirry-Moir
- Ch. III: The Duchess Josiana
- Ch. IV: The Leader of Fashion
- Ch. V: Queen Anne
- Ch. VI: Barkilphedro
- Ch. VII: Barkilphedro Gnaws His Way
- Ch. VIII: Inferi
- Ch. IX: Hate is as Strong as Love
- Ch. X: The Flame Which Would Be Seen if Man Were Transparent
- Ch. XI: Barkilphedro in Ambuscade
- Ch. XII: Scotland, Ireland, and England
Book II: Gwynplaine and Dea
- Ch. I: Wherein We See the Face of Him of Whom We Have Hitherto Seen Only the Act
- Ch. II: Dea
- Ch. III: 'Oculos non Habet, et Videt'
- Ch. IV: Well-matched Lovers
- Ch. V: The Blue Sky through the Black Cloud
- Ch. VI: Ursus as Tutor, and Ursus as Guardian
- Ch. VII: Blindness Gives Lessons in Clairvoyance
- Ch. VIII: Not only Happiness, but Prosperity
- Ch. IX: Absurdities Which Folks Without Taste call Poetry
- Ch. X: An Outsider's View of Men and Things
- Ch. XI: Gwynplaine Thinks Justice, and Ursus Talks Truth
- Ch. XII: Ursus the Poet Drags on Ursus the Philosopher
Book III: The Beginning of the Fissure
- Ch. I: The Tadcaster Inn
- Ch. II: Open-Air Eloquence
- Ch. III: Where the Passer-by Reappears
- Ch. IV: Contraries Fraternize in Hate
- Ch. V: The Wapentake
- Ch. VI: The Mouse Examined by the Cats
- Ch. VII: Why Should a Gold Piece Lower Itself by Mixing with a Heap of Pennies?
- Ch. VIII: Symptoms of Poisoning
- Ch. IX: Abyssus Abyssum Vocat
Book IV: The Cell of Torture
Book V: The Sea and Fate Are Moved by the Same Breath
Book VI: Ursus Under Different Aspects
Book VII: The Titaness
Book VIII: The Capitol and Things Around It
Book IX: In Ruins
Conclusion: The Night and the Sea
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