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| New York : Fox Books, 2008 |
As mentioned in an earlier post, Riding by H.S. Cross is an early version or draft of her novel, Grievous (2019). While Grievous tightens up the story and improves the writing, some of the original structure of Riding is unfortunately lost. The major headings of Lent, Easter, St. Stephen's (appearing at Trinity in Grievous), Summer, Michaelmas, and Christmas remain. The individual chapter titles have been dropped in favor of simple numbering. A nod to early boy's school fiction, the chapter titles suggest what is to happen in each chapter. Many early boy's school novels were originally issued serially in publications directed to school age boys and the individual chapter titles may be an artifact of this publication process.
Below is the original table of contents from Riding. Grievous, has 57 chapters in six sections. Riding also has six sections but is comprised of 95 chapters and issued in two volumes.
Riding : a novel, volume 1
ISBN: 978-0-6152-1366-8 — Fox Books 2008, 513p
Lent
They Longed for the Sheltering Sky
There Was a Book
Mr. Grieves Is Not Amused
Something to Remember
She Envied Her Own Pens
The Propagation of Knowledge
Cartomania
Forgive Our Foolish Ways
Eels, the West Wind, and People Like Us
The Boredom Is No Longer Exquisite
Why Does He Deserve It?
Night
Morning
Friend Indeed
Caveats
The Trial
Perfect Gifts
Triangulation
The Tower
The Doctor is In
That Hideous Recognition
The Chair Loft
Souls of Men
Easter
Passage
Curses
London
Zapped
The Channel
The Key
Paris
Mazes, Continental and Otherwise
Drought
The Weapons of Pacifists
Quicksand, With Beacons
St. Stephen's
Return
Winds of Change
I Write This Not to the Many, but to You
Code That Sets the Miles at Naught
Stratigraphy
Touch
Heartbeat, Heartburn, Heart Attack, Heartbreak
Pursuits, Intellectual and Otherwise
The Persistence of Memory
Orders of Magnitude
Patron's Day
The Exigencies of Time
The Cure
In Which the Geomaniac Ventures, and Is Lost
Progress
Pioneers
Riding : a novel, volume 2
ISBN: 978-0-615-26248-2 — Fox Books 2008, 550p
Summer
To Wake, as if From Dreaming
Irresistible
Messages, Direct and Indirect
The Quick and the Dead
Nothing Shall Be Impossible
The Lady From the Sea
Michaelmas
Rank by Rank
A World Gone Mad
Something in Their Midst
Hounded by His Adversary
Ely
Lamentation of Swans
Venture
Chariot of Fire
Experiences
The Contract
Hypnos and Son
Crime and Punishment
The Passage of Time Vexed Them
The Encircling Gloom
Orders of Magnitude, II
The Pillar of the Cloud
The World as We Know It
The World as It Has Known Itself
This Howling Insanity
Exeat
An Approximation of the Moon
Night, II
Another Gift
The Ninety-Second Day of Michaelmas Term
Keeper of a Hundred Secrets
A Kind of Mercy
The Coming Storm
Ice
As Bad as All That
What Girls Are Made Of
The Most Brutal of Punishments
Unfamiliar Sun
Christmas Tea
Christmas
The Future
The Present
The Past
Like the Wildness of the Sea
The Winters of Your Grief
And Christmas Comes Once More
