'A Modern Chronicle' is a best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill. The novel explores "the problem of the modern woman" and the effects of divorce, in a world driven by industrialization and business competition. Honora Leffingwell divorces her successful stockbroker husband to climb the social ladder, remarrying a man with ancestral wealth and status who turns out not to be all he seems.
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BOOK I. CHAPTER I. WHAT'S IN HEREDITY CHAPTER II. PERDITA RECALLED CHAPTER III. CONCERNING PROVIDENCE CHAPTER IV. OF TEMPERAMENT CHAPTER V. IN WHICH PROVIDENCE BEEPS FAITH CHAPTER VI. HONORA HAS A GLIMPSE OF THE WORLD Volume 2. CHAPTER VII. THE OLYMPIAN ORDER CHAPTER VIII. A CHAPTER OF CONQUESTS CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH THE VICOMTE CONTINUES HIS STUDIES CHAPTER X. IN WHICH HONORA WIDENS HER HORIZON CHAPTER XI. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN CHAPTER XII. WHICH CONTAINS A SURPRISE FOR MRS. HOLT BOOK II. Volume 3. CHAPTER I. SO LONG AS YE BOTH SHALL LIVE! CHAPTER II. "STAFFORD PARK" CHAPTER III. THE GREAT UNATTACHED CHAPTER IV. THE NEW DOCTRINE CHAPTER V. QUICKSANDS CHAPTER VI. GAD AND MENI. Volume 4. CHAPTER VII. OF CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS CHAPTER VIII. OF MENTAL PROCESSES—FEMININE AND INSOLUBLE CHAPTER IX. INTRODUCING A REVOLUTIONIZING VEHICLE CHAPTER X. ON THE ART OF LION TAMING CHAPTER XI. CONTAINING SOME REVELATIONS BOOK III. CHAPTER I. ASCENDI. CHAPTER II. THE PATH OF PHILANTHROPY CHAPTER III. VINELAND CHAPTER IV. THE VIKING CHAPTER V. THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Volume 6. CHAPTER VI. CLIO, OR THALIA? CHAPTER VII. "LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH THE LAW BETRAYS A HEART CHAPTER IX. WYLIE STREET CHAPTER X. THE PRICE OF FREEDOM Volume 7. CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH IT IS ALL DONE OVER AGAIN CHAPTER XII. THE ENTRANCE INTO EDEN CHAPTER XIII. OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE GATES CHAPTER XIV. CONTAINING PHILOSOPHY FROM MR. GRAINGER CHAPTER XV. THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY Volume 8. CHAPTER XVI. IN WHICH A MIRROR IS HELD UP CHAPTER XVII. THE RENEWAL OF AN ANCIENT HOSPITALITY CHAPTER XVIII. IN WHICH MR. ERWIN SEEK PARIS
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Winston Churchill (1871-1947) was an American novelist. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894 and became an editor of the Army and Navy Journal. He resigned from the navy to pursue a writing career. While it is claimed that his first novel was The Celebrity, published in 1898, a question arises where his novel called Mr. Keegan's Elopement should be placed, because it was published two years earlier in (1896) within a magazine. Later in 1903 it was republished as an illustrated hardback book. His next novel called Richard Carvel, was published the next year. It was a phenomenon, literally selling by the box-car as many as two million copies in a nation of only seventy- six million, and that book made Churchill rich. His next two novels, The Crisis (1901) and The Crossing (1904), were also very successful. In 1917, he toured the battlefields of World War I and wrote about what he saw, his first non-fiction work. Sometime after this move, he took up watercolours, and also became known for his landscapes.
