title: Necessity: A Novel (Thessaly)
author:  Jo Walton 
description: "A trilogy which began as an almost-dry intellectual exercise ends as a glorious kitchen sink of genre, combining philosophy, time travel, aliens, and the gods." <b>Kirkus Reviews</b>
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  # Opening a Chestnut Burr
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edward Payson Roe
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  CHAPTER I. A HERO, BUT NOT HEROIC
  
  
  CHAPTER II. OPENING A CHESTNUT BURR
  
  
  CHAPTER III. MORBID BROODING
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. HOW MISS WALTON MANAGED PEOPLE
  
  
  CHAPTER V. WAS IT AN ACCIDENT?
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. UNEXPECTED CHESTNUT BURRS
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. A CONSPIRACY
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. WITCHCRAFT
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. MISS WALTON RECOMMENDS A HOBBY
  
  
  CHAPTER X. A PLOT AGAINST MISS WALTON
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. A DRINKING-SONG AT A PRAYER-MEETING
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. FOILED IN ONE DIRECTION
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. INTERPRETING CHESTNUT BURRS
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. “A WELL-MEANIN' MAN”
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. MISS WALTON'S DREAM
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. AN ACCIDENT IN THE MOUNTAINS
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. “PROMISE OR DIE”
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE DEPTHS
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. MISS WALTON MADE OF DIFFERENT CLAY
  
  
  FROM OTHERS
  
  
  CHAPTER XX. MISS WALTON MADE OF ORDINARY CLAY
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI. PASSION AND