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Glory Of The Conquered

"The Glory Of The Conquered, The Story Of A Great Love" is Susan Glaspell's first novel. It tells the story of Karl, who was blinded after being injured by a lab experiment and his wife, Ernestine, who nursed him". - Summary by Stav Nisser. (9 hr 55 min)

Chapters

Chapter I - Ernestine

Chapter II - The Letter

Chapter III - Karl

Chapter IV - Facts and "Higher Truth"

Chapter V - The Home-Coming

Chapter VI - "Gloria Victis"

Chapter VII - Ernestine in Her Studio

Chapter VIII - Science, Art, and Love

Chapter IX - As the Surgeon Saw It

Chapter X - Karl in His Laboratory

Chapter XI - Pictures in the Embers

Chapter XII - A Warning and a Premonition

Chapter XIII - An Uncrossed Bridge

Chapter XIV - "To the Great Unwhimpering!"

Chapter XV - The Verdict

Chapter XVI - "Good Luck, Beason!"

Chapter XVII - Distant Strains of Triumph

Chapter XVIII - Telling Ernestine

Chapter XIX - Into the Dark

Chapter XX - Marriage and Paper Bags

Chapter XXI - Factory-Made Optimism

Chapter XXII - A Blind Man's Twilight

Chapter XXIII - Her Vision

Chapter XXIV - Love Challenges Fate

Chapter XXV - Dr. Parkman's Way

Chapter XXVI - Old-Fashioned Love

Chapter XXVII - Learning to Be Karl's Eyes

Chapter XXVIII - With Broken Sword

Chapter XXIX - Unpainted Masterpieces

Chapter XXX - Eyes for Two

Chapter XXXI - Science and Super-Science

Chapter XXXII - The Doctor Has His Way

Chapter XXXIII - Love's Own Hour

Chapter XXXIV - Almost Dawn

Chapter XXXV - "Oh Hurry--Hurry!"

Chapter XXXVI - With the Outgoing Tide

Chapter XXXVII - Beneath Dead Leaves

Chapter XXXVIII - Patchwork Quilts

Chapter XXXIX - Ash Heap and Rose Jar

Chapter XL - "Let There Be Light!"

Chapter XLI - When the Tide Came In

Chapter XLII - Work the Saviour

Chapter XLIII - "And There Was Light"