The Duke of Stockbridge : a romance of Shays' Rebellion

Edward Bellamy, later famous as the author of Looking Backward, produced in The Duke of Stockbridge (1879) a novel which “gives a more accurate account,” Samuel Eliot Morison said, “of Shays’ Rebellion than any of the formal histories.” Bellamy’s themes of social revolt accompany an affirmation of the American ideals of egalitarianism and the pursuit of happiness. Hitherto, the novel has been available only in a heavily edited version; the present edition, based on the original as it was printed in the Berkshire Courier, offers the first authentic text since its publication. CONTENTS EDWARD BELLAMY: REALIST AND UTOPIAN NOTE ON THE TEXT THE DUKE OF STOCKBRIDGE CHAPTER FIRST THE MARCH OF THE MINUTE MEN CHAPTER SECOND NINE YEARS AFTER CHAPTER THIRD THE TAVERN-JAIL AT BARRINGTON CHAPTER FOURTH THE PEOPLE ASK BREAD AND RECEIVE A STONE CHAPTER FIFTH THAT MEANS REBELLION! CHAPTER SIXTH PEREZ DEFINES HIS POSITION CHAPTER SEVENTH THE FIRST ENCOUNTER CHAPTER EIGHTH GREAT GOING SON AT BARRINGTON CHAPTER NINTH JUDGE DWIGHT’S SIGNATURE CHAPTER TENTH GREAT GOINGS ON AT BARRINGTON CONTINUED CHAPTER ELEVENTH END OF THE GOINGS ON AT BARRINGTON CHAPTER TWELFTH A FAIR SUPPLIANT CHAPTER THIRTEENTH A PRAISE MEETING CHAPTER FOURTEENTH PEREZ GOES TO MEETING CHAPTER FIFTEENTH WHAT HAPPENED AFTER MEETING CHAPTER SIXTEENTH AN AUCTION SALE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH LEX TALIONIS CHAPTER NINETEENTH PEREZ GETS HIS TITLE CHAPTER TWENTIETH TWO CRITICAL INTERVIEWS CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST THE HUSKING CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND BRACE OF PROCLAMATIONS CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD SNOW-BOUND CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURTH THE BATTLE OF WEST STOCKBRIDGE CHAPTER TWENTY-FIFTH A GAME OF BLUFF CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXTH THE RESTORATION CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTH SOME REAL FIGHTING