THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND

By Harriet Beecher Stowe

Introductory Note
CHAPTER
I.	Naomi	1
II.	Mara	5
III.	The Baptism and the Burial	9
IV.	Aunt Roxy and Aunt Ruey	15
V.	The Kittridges	25
VI.	Grandparents	36
VII.	From the Sea	47
VIII.	The Seen and the Unseen	58
IX.	Moses	74
X.	The Minister	85
XI.	Little Adventurers	99
XII.	Sea Tales	110
XIII.	Boy and Girl	120
XIV.	The Enchanted Island	132
XV.	The Home Coming	143
XVI.	The Natural and the Spiritual	154
XVII.	Lessons	165
XVIII.	Sally	175
XIX.	Eighteen	179
XX.	Rebellion	186
XXI.	The Tempter	198
XXII.	A Friend in Need	208
XXIII.	The Beginning of the Story	218
XXIV.	Desires and Dreams	229
XXV.	Miss Emily	235
XXVI.	Dolores	245
XXVII.	Hidden Things	258
XXVIII.	A Coquette	270
XXIX.	Night Talks	279
XXX.	The Launch of the Ariel	290
XXXI.	Greek meets Greek	303
XXXII.	The Betrothal	315
XXXIII.	At a Quilting	323
XXXIV.	Friends	329
XXXV.	The Toothacre Cottage	335
XXXVI.	The Shadow of Death	339
XXXVII.	The Victory	351
XXXVIII.	Open Vision	358
XXXIX.	The Land of Beulah	368
XL.	The Meeting	376
XLI.	Consolation	380
XLII.	Last Words	387
XLIII.	The Pearl	393
XLIV.	Four Years After	398

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Nobody's Dog	1
A Flowery January in Florida	16
The Wrong Side of the Tapestry	26
A Letter To the Girls	40
A Water-coach, and a Ride in It	53
Picnicking up Julington	69
Magnolia	87
Yellow Jessamines	97
"Florida for Invalids"	116
Swamps and Orange-Trees	137
Letter-Writing	148
Magnolia Week	161
Buying Land in Florida	175
Our Experience in Crops	185
May in Florida	196
St. Augustine	206
Our Neighbor Over the Way	225
The Grand Tour up River	247
Old Cudjo and the Angel	267
The Laborers of the South	279

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The Place	7
The Salemite of Forty Years Ago	8
How the Subject was opened	9
Careful Historiography	10
The Actors in the Tragedy	12
Philosophy of the Delusion	12
Character of the Early Settlement	13
First Causes	15
Death of the Patriarch	16
Growth of Witchcraft	17
Trouble in the Church	18
Rev. Mr. Burroughs	19
Deodat Lawson	20
Parris—a Malignant	20
A Protean Devil	21
State of Physiology	22
William Penn as a Precedent	22
Phenomena of Witchcraft	23
Parris and his Circle	25
The Inquisitions—Sarah Good	26
A Child Witch	27
The Towne Sisters	28
Depositions of Parris and his Tools	31
Goody Nurse’s Excommunication	35
Mary Easty	36
Mrs. Cloyse	38
The Proctor Family	40
The Jacobs Family	41
Giles and Martha Corey	42
Decline of the Delusion	44
The Physio-Psychological Causes of the Trouble	45
The Last of Parris	47
“One of the Afflicted”—Her Confession	49
The Transition	50
The Fetish Theory Then and Now	51
The Views of Modern Investigators	53
Importance of the Subject	55

What Planchette is and does (with review of Facts and Phenomena)	63
The Press on Planchette (with further details of Phenomena)	67
Theory First—That the Board is moved by the hands that rest upon it	70
Theory Second—“It is Electricity or Magnetism”	71
Proof that Electricity has nothing to do with it	78
Theory Third—The Devil Theory	79
Theory of a Floating Ambient Mentality	81
“To Daimonion”—The Demon	83
“It is some principle of nature as yet unknown”	85
Theory of the Agency of Departed Spirits	85
Planchette’s own Theory	89
The Rational Difficulty	92
The Medium—The Doctrine of Spheres	93
The Moral and Religious Difficulty	98
What this Modern Development is, and what is to come of it	102
Conclusion	105
How to work Planchette	106

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