title: Legends of the Dark Stranger: Words and Images
author: Richard W. McDowell
description: Richard goes by many handles. In China he is known as Le Cha; in Malaysia Rasiff; in Japan and Vietnam Richardsan; in Italy and Spain he is Ricardo Douello. Dark Stranger is derived from a Celtic translation of his given name. He currently resides in Torrance, California.
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  # Balzac
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Frederick Lawton
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE
  
  
  CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
  
  
  CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD
  
  
  CHAPTER III. EXPERIMENTS IN LITERATURE AND BUSINESS
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. FIRST SUCCESSES AND FAME
  
  
  CHAPTER V. LETTERS TO "THE STRANGER," 1831, 1832
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. LETTERS TO "THE STRANGER," 1833, 1834
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. LETTERS TO "THE STRANGER," 1835, 1836
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. LETTERS TO "THE STRANGER," 1837,
  
  
  1838
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. LETTERS TO "THE STRANGER," 1839, 1840
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER X. LETTERS TO "THE STRANGER," 1841, 1842
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. LETTERS TO "THE STRANGER," 1843, 1844
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. LETTERS TO "THE STRANGER," 1845, 1846
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. LAST YEARS: MARRIAGE AND DEATH
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. THE COMEDIE HUMAINE
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. VALUE OF THE WORK
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. THE INFLUENCE
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. CONCLUSION: THE MAN AND HIS
  
  
  PORTRAITS
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  Prepared by Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.c