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100 1 _aWhitham, G. I.
_q(Grace Isabelle),
_d1874-1965
245 1 0 _aDick Chester
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-02
508 _aAl Haines
520 _a"Dick Chester: A Story of the Civil War" by G. I. Whitham is a historical adventure novel written in the late 19th century. Set during the English Civil War, it follows the orphaned young baronet Dick Chester and a ragged, resourceful companion named Giles as they defy Roundhead forces to hold Dent Castle for the King, testing courage, loyalty, and honor. The opening of the novel shows Captain John Dent abandoning Dent Castle just as enemy cavalry approaches, prompting eleven-year-old Dick to swim the moat back into his home and, with the unexpected help of Giles, resolve to defend it. After a tense parley and a lesson in honor (Dick is stopped from firing on a flag of truce), the besiegers shoot down the royal flag, which Dick promptly rehoists; Giles then risks a sortie, brings in a wounded enemy, and learns artillery is coming. The pair draw lots and Dick slips out by night to reach the royal camp at Lumley, where skeptical officers mock him until Giles’s master—clearly the highest authority present—recognizes a shared token and orders Dent relieved. Immediately afterward, Dick vanishes through a secret panel, kidnapped by John Dent’s agents; fed lies by Master Purvis and carried south under guard, he is even confronted by a staged “Royalist” threat meant to break his spirit, setting the stakes for his rescue and the fate of Dent. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Blackie and Son Limited, 1921
653 _aGreat Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aHardy, Paul,
_d1862-1942
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76615
999 _c117340
_d117340