The Broad Highway

This is Romance with a capital R. The Broad Highway has romantic language, passionate characters, and swashbuckling adventures on the open road. Classic characters include the hero and his lady, the Tinker, the Ancient, and Black George, the smith. Farnol's first novel was an instant success.

Chapter# / Title

• Dedication
• Ante Scriptum
• Book One - Chapter 1 Chiefly Concerning My Uncle's Last Will and Testament
• Book One - Chapter 2 I Set Out
• Book One - Chapter 3 Concerns Itself Mainly With a Hat
• Book One - Chapter 4 I Meet with a Great Misfortune
• Book One - Chapter 5 The Bagman
• Book One - Chapter 6 What Befell Me At The White Hart
• Book One - Chapter 7 Of the Further Puzzling Behavior of Tom Cragg - the Pugilist
• Book One - Chapter 8 Which Concerns Itself with a Farmer's Whiskers and a Waistcoat
• Book One - Chapter 9 In Which I Stumble Upon An Affair of Honor
• Book One - Chapter 10 Which Relates The End of an Honorable Affair
• Book One - Chapter 11 Which Relates a Brief Passage-At-Arms at The Chequers Inn
• Book One - Chapter 12 The One-Legged Soldier
• Book One - Chapter 13 In Which I Find An Answer to My Riddle
• Book One - Chapter 14 Further Concerning the Gentleman in the Battered Hat
• Book One - Chapter 15 In Which I Meet With a Pedler by the Name of Gabbing Dick
• Book One - Chapter 16 How I Heard The Steps of One Who Dogged Me In The Shadows
• Book One - Chapter 17 How I Talked With a Madman in a Wood by Moonlight
• Book One - Chapter 18 The Hedge-Tavern
• Book One - Chapter 19 In Which I Become a Squire of Dames
• Book One - Chapter 20 Concerning Daemons in General and One in Particular
• Book One - Chapter 21 Journeys End in Lover's Meetings
• Book One - Chapter 22 In Which I Meet with a Literary Tinker
• Book One - Chapter 23 Concerning Happiness - a Ploughman - and Silver Buttons
• Book One - Chapter 24 Which Introduces the Reader to the Ancient
• Book One - Chapter 25 Of Black George - The Smith - and How We Threw The Hammer
• Book One - Chapter 26 Wherein I Learn More Concerning the Ghost of the Ruined Hut
• Book One - Chapter 27 Which Tells How and In What Manner I Saw the Ghost
• Book One - Chapter 28 The Highland Piper
• Book One - Chapter 29 How Black George and I Shook Hands
• Book One - Chapter 30 In Which I Forswear Myself and Am Accused of Possessing the Evil Eye
• Book One - Chapter 31 In Which Donald Bids Me Farewell
• Book One - Chapter 32 In Which The First Book Begins to Draw to a Close
• Book One - Chapter 33 In Which We Draw Yet Nearer to the End of This First Book
• Book One - Chapter 34 Which Describes Sundry Happennings at the Fair, and Ends This First Book
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 1 Of Storm And Tempest And of the Coming of Charmian
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 2 The Postilion
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 3 Which Bears Ample Testimony to the Strength of the Gentleman's Fists
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 4 Which - Among Other Matters - Has to do with Bruises and Bandages
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 5 In Which I Hear Ill News of George
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 6 In Which I Learn of an Impending Danger
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 7 Which Narrates a Somewhat Remarkable Conversation
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 8 In Which I See a Vision in the Glory of the Moon, and Eat of a Poached Rabbit
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 9 Which Relates Somewhat of Charmian Brown
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 10 I Am Suspected of the Black Art
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 11 A Shadow in the Hedge
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 12 Who Comes
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 13 A Pedler in Arcadia
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 14 Concerning Black George's Letter
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 15 Which May Be Skipped if the Reader So Desire
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 16 Concerning - among Other Matters - The Price of Beef, and the Lady Sophia Sefton of Cambourne
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 17 The Omen
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 18 In Which I Hear News of Sir Maurice Vibart
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 19 How I Met Black George Again and Wherein the Patient Reader Shall Find a Little Blood
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 20 How I Came Up Out of the Dark
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 21 Of the Opening of the Door and How Charmian Blew Out the Light
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 22 In Which The Ancient Discourses on Love
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 23 How Gabbing Dick, the Pedler, Set a Hammer Going in My Head
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 24 The Virgil Book
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 25 In Which the Reader Shall Find Little To Do With The Story - and May - Therefore - Skip
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 26 Of Storm and Tempest and how I Met One Praying in the Dawn
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 27 The Epileptic
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 28 In Which I Come to a Determination
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 29 In Which Charmian Answers My Question
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 30 Concerning the Fate of Black George
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 31 In Which The Ancient is Surprised
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 32 How We Set Out for Burnham Hall
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 33 In Which I Fall From Folly Into Madness
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 34 In Which I Find Peace and Joy and an Abiding Sorrow
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 35 How Black George Found Prudence in the Dawn
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 36 Which Sympathizes with a Brass Jack, A Brace of Cutlasses, and Divers Pots and Pans
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 37 The Preacher
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 38 In Which I Meet My Cousin - Sir Maurice Vibart
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 39 How I Went Down Into the Shadows
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 40 How - In Place of Death - I Found the Fulness of Life
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 41 Light and Shadow
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 42 How Sir Maurice Kept His Word
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 43 How I Set Out to Face My Destiny
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 44 The Bow Street Runners
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 45 Which Concerns Itself - Among Other Matters - With the Boots of the Saturnine Jeremy
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 46 How I Came to London
• Book Two The Woman - Chapter 47 In Which This History is Ended