(U) Overtaken: The Wild Lad of London (E. A. Bland)

Overtaken

The Wild Lad of London

Known as a wild lad, young Ishmael lives in Gold Lion Row, the rough section of London. He suffers great loss and finds himself alone and bewildered. After enduring a cruel beating, feelings of stony hardness overtake him and he leaves home for good. But Ishmael’s dark world brightens when the words from the street preacher reach down deep, and he is changed. No longer is he alone, for he now has a Friend who sticks closer than a brother!  Overtaken is his story.

Originally written in 1887, and now reprinted in a beautiful facsimile edition.

E. A. Bland is also author of the Lamplighter Rare Collector’s title Sweet Revenge.

Table of Contents

1. The “Wild Man” Baby
2. Registered
3. A Long Good-Bye
4. A Mystery for Ishmael
5. School-Days
6. “When Greek Meets Greek”
7. Launching Out
8. A New Charge
9. “The Kit”
10. An Enemy in the Camp
11. A Sunday Visitor
12. Groping After Light
13. “What I Do Thou Knowest Not Now”
14. Ishmael’s Secret
15. An Encounter
16. The Messenger Silenced
17. Waiting in Suspense
18. A Search for Work
19. Gone!
20. “After Many Days”
21. Promotion
22. Old Haunts Revisited
23. Meeting
24. Parting