The Trespasser

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THE TRESPASSER
By Gilbert Parker
CONTENTS: Volume 1 I. ONE IN SEARCH OF A KINGDOM II. IN
WHICH HE CLAIMS HIS OWN III. HE TELLS THE STORY OF
HIS LIFE IV. AN HOUR WITH HIS FATHER'S PAST V. WHEREIN
HE FINDS HIS ENEMY
Volume 2. VI. WHICH TELLS OF STRANGE ENCOUNTERS VII.
WHEREIN THE SEAL OF HIS HERITAGE IS SET VIII. HE
ANSWERS AN AWKWARD QUESTION IX. HE FINDS NEW
SPONSORS X. HE COMES TO "THE WAKING OF THE FIRE" XI.
HE MAKES A GALLANT CONQUEST

Volume 3. XII. HE STANDS BETWEEN TWO WORLDS XIII. HE
JOURNEYS AFAR XIV. IN WHICH THE PAST IS REPEATED XV.
WHEREIN IS SEEN THE OLD ADAM AND THE GARDEN XVI.
WHEREIN LOVE SNOWS NO LAW SAVE THE MAN'S XVII. THE
MAN AND THE WOMAN FACE THE INTOLERABLE XVIII.
"RETURN, O SHULAMITE!"

INTRODUCTION
While I was studying the life of French Canada in the winter of 1892,
in the city of Quebec or in secluded parishes, there was forwarded to
me from my London home a letter from Mr. Arrowsmith, the publisher,
asking me to write a novel of fifty thousand or sixty thousand words for
what was called his Annual. In this Annual had appeared Hugh
Conway's 'Called Back' and Anthony Hope's 'Prisoner of Zenda',
among other celebrated works of fiction. I cabled my acceptance of the
excellent offer made me, and the summer of 1893 found me at
Audierne, in Brittany, with some artist friends--more than one of whom
has since come to eminence--living what was really an out-door literary
life; for the greater part of 'The Trespasser' was written in a high-walled
garden on a gentle hill, and the remainder in a little tower-like structure
of the villa where I lodged, which was all windows. The latter I only
used when it rained, and the garden was my workshop. There were
peaches and figs on the walls, pleasant shrubs surrounded me, and the
place was ideally quiet and serene. Coffee or tea and toast was served
me at 6.30 o'clock A.M., my pad was on my knee at 8, and then there
was practically uninterrupted work till 12, when 'dejeuner a la
fourchette', with its fresh sardines, its omelettes, and its roast chicken,
was welcome. The afternoon was spent on the sea-shore, which is very
beautiful at Audierne, and there I watched my friends painting
sea-scapes. In the late afternoon came letter-writing and reading, and
after a little and simple dinner at 6.30 came bed at 9.45 or thereabouts.
In such conditions for many weeks I worked on The Trespasser; and I
think the book has an outdoor spirit which such a life would inspire.
It was perhaps natural that, having lived in Canada and Australia, and

having travelled greatly in all the outer portions of the Empire, I should
be interested in and impelled to write regarding the impingement of the
outer life of our far dominions, through individual character, upon the
complicated, traditional, orderly life of England. That feeling found
expression in The Translation of a Savage, and I think that in neither
case the issue of the plot or the plot--if such it may be called --nor the
main incident, was exaggerated. Whether the treatment