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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 (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
Churchill was born into the family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a branch of the Spencer family. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.
At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of Asquith's Liberal government. During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government under Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Baldwin's Conservative government of 1924–1929, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy.
Out of office and politically "in the wilderness" during the 1930s because of his opposition to increased home rule for India and his resistance to the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII, Churchill took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. His speeches and radio broadcasts helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult days of 1940-1 when the British Commonwealth and Empire stood almost alone in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. He led Britain as Prime Minister until victory over Nazi Germany had been secured.
After the Conservative Party lost the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour Government. He publicly warned of an "Iron Curtain" of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. After winning the 1951 election, Churchill again became Prime Minister. His second term was preoccupied by foreign affairs, including the Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Korean War, and a UK-backed coup d'état in Iran. Domestically his government laid great emphasis on house-building. Churchill suffered a serious stroke in 1953 and retired as Prime Minister in 1955, although he remained a Member of Parliament until 1964. Upon his death aged ninety in 1965, Elizabeth II granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history, consistently ranking well in opinion polls of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom.
