The Nun and Other Stories

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-02-01
Publisher(s): Bucknell Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Translator's Preface 9(3)
Introduction 12(21)
Stephen Miller
The Nun 33(14)
Captain Poison 47(1)
Part I: BODILY WOUNDS
A Little Political History
47(1)
Our Heroine
48(1)
Our Hero
49(2)
One's Own Skin and Another's
51(2)
A Blunderbuss Shot
53(1)
Diagnosis and Prognosis
54(1)
Expectation
55(1)
Drawbacks of the Stranger's Guidebook
56(1)
More Drawbacks of the Stranger's Guidebook
57(3)
The Captain Explains Himself
60(5)
Part II: THE BAD MAN'S LIFE
The Second Treatment
65(3)
Rainbow of Peace
68(1)
The Power of Eloquence
69(2)
Indispensable Preambles
71(1)
The Captain's History
72(3)
The Rebel Leader's Widow
75(2)
Angustias's Suitors
77(4)
Part III: SPIRITUAL WOUNDS
Skirmishes
81(2)
The Issue is Raised
83(2)
Convalescence
85(2)
Retrospective Glance
87(3)
A Sudden Change
90(2)
Catastrophe
92(5)
Miracles of Grief
97(2)
Part IV: FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH
About How the Captain Came to Talk to Himself
99(2)
A Pitched Battle
101(14)
Etiamsi Omnes
115(4)
Moors and Christians 119(34)
The Tall Woman 153(18)
Notes 171(6)
Select Bibliography 177

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