Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen

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In Ohio in 1900, the wife of Dr Uyterhoeven recieves a series of extraordinary letters from her elderly husband. It seems that after being shipwrecked he has found the legendary Antipodes, and describes a fantastical country inhabited by warring chess pieces, dominoes and dice.

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At some time near dawn, on March 25, 1913, there came a loud knocking at the front door of the Uyterhoevens' home in the Dayton View section of Dayton, Ohio.

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PART ONE: The First Three Letters
One / THE GREAT DAYTON FLOOD
Two / The Mercenary
Three / THE FIRST READING
Four / The Mystific and Mrs. Anna
Five / THE LAAGER AT BLOEMFONTEIN (The Origami Knight)

PART TWO: The Study of Effects,1823-1867
Six / YOUTH AND COURTSHIP (1823-1855)
Seven / THE FRIEDRICH WILHELM INSTITUT (1855-1867)

PART THREE: The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Letters
Eight / Eugene's Rook
Nine / The Implication of Dominoes
Ten / Pelagia's Monastery
Eleven / The Staunton's Proposal

PART FOUR: The Shadow of Klipdrift
Twelve / South Africa, 1867

PART FIVE: The Eight, Ninth, and Tenth Letters
Thirteen / John Edward
Fourteen / John William
Fifteen / Po's Tapestries

PART SIX: The Contemplation of Cause, 1868-1900
Sixteen / THE FOUNDING OF THE CHESS GARDEN (1868-1884)
Seventeen / THE CASE OF AMOS AVERY BLODGET
Eighteen / THE FAREWELL PARTY

PART SEVEN: The Last Two Letters
Nineteen / Teverin
Twenty / THE LAST READING (The Dark Cabin)

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Brooks Hansen (Author)

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Dewey: 813.54

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Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › African › Central & South African
Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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