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God's fool

God's fool

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    Published 1800 -1900
  • Languages: 
    English
  • Provider: Librivox
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Temporary summary (from Wikipedia), will make final summary at the end: the novel is set in the fictitious Dutch town of Koopstad. The novel’s ‘hero’, Elias Lossell, becomes deaf and blind from an accident when he is nine years old. The people around him can communicate with him by writing letters with a finger on the palm of his hand. Although communication is possible, mentally he always remains a boy of nine. Thanks to a somewhat thoughtless testament Elias becomes the rightful owner of the firm of Volderdoes Zonen, tea-merchants. His half-brothers, the twins Hendrik and Hubert, manage the firm on his behalf. Elias lives in a house of his own at the outskirts of Koopstad, looked after by his old nurse Johanna, and occupies himself by growing flowers and helping the needy. Hendrik tries to save up as much money as he can to buy out Elias and take over the firm. His spendthrift wife Cornelia does not make it easy for him. While Hubert stays in China to look after the firm’s interests there, Hendrik starts speculating with Elias’s money at the instigation of his brother-in-law Thomas Alers. Hubert returns to Koopstad and gradually learns what his brother has done. He firmly disapproves. (Summary from Wikipedia) (temporary)

Chapters

  • 01
    Sweeps the reader into a cloud of mist
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  • 02
    Shows that the story will be a highly respectable one
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  • 03
    And also altogether comfortable
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  • 04
    The new life begins
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  • 05
    Light and shade
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  • 06
    "Thunder"-storms
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  • 07
    Stepmothers
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  • 08
    Cousin Cocoa
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  • 09
    Elias hears - the thruth
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  • 10
    Dr. Pillenaar's revenge
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  • 11
    "Like a stream under a willow-tree"
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  • 12
    Volderdoes Zonen
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  • 13
    The head of the firm
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    No thoroughfare, and the way out
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  • 15
    Hendrik's temptation
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    Compos mentis
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    A "struggle-for-lifer"
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    The marriage-lottery
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    Blank
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  • 20
    Cousins and cozenage
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    The bride asks for flowers on her path
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  • 22
    Treats of religion
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    Music and discord
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    A prince among paupers
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  • 25
    Elias slays his ten thousands
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  • 26
    Hendrik Lossell's first step
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  • 27
    Aigre-doux
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    Why not?
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  • 29
    A partnership with limited liability
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  • 30
    Elias's eyes open upon the world
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    Two brothers in misfortune
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    "A fool and his money"
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    The Rubicon
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    A fool's thoughts
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    And a wise man's deeds
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    Two rights and no wrong
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    A strange duck in the pond
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    The power of attorney
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    The message of eternal spring
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    A flash of light
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    Brothers in unity
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    Blind justice
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    Doomed
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    Alas, poor Hubert!
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    Social science
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    The catastrophe
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    The shadow of the sword
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    Shoemaker, stick to thy last
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  • 49
    Hubert's deliverance
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    Elias's guilt
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    Koopstad cackles
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  • 52
    The resurrection and the life
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