Author: Eden Phillpotts
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484011488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Excerpt from Folly and Fresh Air DO nothing Of the kind. You never could stand getting your feet wet; and if you fish, they will, of course, be soaking from morning till night, and you may catch your death. An Old domestic, who had been in our family long before any records of it appear in history, ventured to say that she had known a young person who was born and bred on Dartmoor. She added that this native always declared it to be a most lonesome locality, and a dangerous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Folly and Fresh Air (Classic Reprint)
Author: Eden Phillpotts
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484011488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Excerpt from Folly and Fresh Air DO nothing Of the kind. You never could stand getting your feet wet; and if you fish, they will, of course, be soaking from morning till night, and you may catch your death. An Old domestic, who had been in our family long before any records of it appear in history, ventured to say that she had known a young person who was born and bred on Dartmoor. She added that this native always declared it to be a most lonesome locality, and a dangerous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484011488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Excerpt from Folly and Fresh Air DO nothing Of the kind. You never could stand getting your feet wet; and if you fish, they will, of course, be soaking from morning till night, and you may catch your death. An Old domestic, who had been in our family long before any records of it appear in history, ventured to say that she had known a young person who was born and bred on Dartmoor. She added that this native always declared it to be a most lonesome locality, and a dangerous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Folly (Classic Reprint)
Author: Edith Rickert
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483832916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Excerpt from Folly There she hung, like any Juliet from her balcony, but did not perceive her husband at the foot of the stairs until he tossed a tiny bunch of celandines against her cheek. She caught the posy and glanced down upon him calmly and critically. She might well have been think ing that, burly and ruddy as he was, he made no bad figure of a country squire; but he grew uncomfortably aware that he was hot and mud-splashed and entirely out of harmony with her daintiness. She tossed back his flowers with the comment: They don't match my gown - see? In silence he returned the despised blossoms to his buttonhole, as she asked indifferently: Roads bad? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483832916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Excerpt from Folly There she hung, like any Juliet from her balcony, but did not perceive her husband at the foot of the stairs until he tossed a tiny bunch of celandines against her cheek. She caught the posy and glanced down upon him calmly and critically. She might well have been think ing that, burly and ruddy as he was, he made no bad figure of a country squire; but he grew uncomfortably aware that he was hot and mud-splashed and entirely out of harmony with her daintiness. She tossed back his flowers with the comment: They don't match my gown - see? In silence he returned the despised blossoms to his buttonhole, as she asked indifferently: Roads bad? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Fortnight of Folly (Classic Reprint)
Author: Maurice Thompson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332452036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Excerpt from A Fortnight of Folly Viewing the large building from any favorable point in the valley, itlooked like a huge white b: rd sitting with outstretched wings on the gray rock far up against the tender blue sky. All around it the Forests were thick and green, the ravines deep and gloomy and the rocks tumbled into fantastic heaps. When you reached it, which was after a Whole day of hard zig-zag climbing, you found it a rather plain three-story house, whose broad verandas were worried with a mass ofjig-saw fancies and whose windows glared at you between wide Open green Venetian shutters. Everything look new, almost raw, from the stumps of fresh-cut trees on the lawn and the rope swings and long benches, upon which the paint was scarcely dry, to the resonant floor of the spacious halls and the cedar-fragrant hand-rail of the stairway. There were springs among the rocks. Here the water trickled out with a red gleam of iron oxide, there it sparkled with an excess of car bonic acid, and yonder it bubbled up all the more limpid and clear on account of the offen sive sulphuretted hydrogen it was bringing forth. Masses of fern, great cushions of cool moss and tangles of blooming shrubs and Vines fringed the sides of the little ravines down which the spring-streams sang their way to the silver thread of a river in the valley. It was altogether a dizzy perch, a strange, in convenient, out-of-the-way spot for a summer hotel. You reached it all out of breath, con fused as to the points of the compass and dis appointed, in every sense of the word, with What at first glance struck you as a colossal pretense, empty, raw, vulgar, loud a great trap into which you had been inveigled by an eloquent hand-bill! Hotel Helicon, as a name for the place, was considered a happy one. It had come to the proprietor, as if in a dream, one day as he sat smoking. He slapped his thigh with his hand and sprang to his feet. The word that went so smoothly with hotel, as he fancied, had no special meaning in his mind, for the gas man had never been guilty of classical lore study, but it furnished a taking alliteration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332452036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Excerpt from A Fortnight of Folly Viewing the large building from any favorable point in the valley, itlooked like a huge white b: rd sitting with outstretched wings on the gray rock far up against the tender blue sky. All around it the Forests were thick and green, the ravines deep and gloomy and the rocks tumbled into fantastic heaps. When you reached it, which was after a Whole day of hard zig-zag climbing, you found it a rather plain three-story house, whose broad verandas were worried with a mass ofjig-saw fancies and whose windows glared at you between wide Open green Venetian shutters. Everything look new, almost raw, from the stumps of fresh-cut trees on the lawn and the rope swings and long benches, upon which the paint was scarcely dry, to the resonant floor of the spacious halls and the cedar-fragrant hand-rail of the stairway. There were springs among the rocks. Here the water trickled out with a red gleam of iron oxide, there it sparkled with an excess of car bonic acid, and yonder it bubbled up all the more limpid and clear on account of the offen sive sulphuretted hydrogen it was bringing forth. Masses of fern, great cushions of cool moss and tangles of blooming shrubs and Vines fringed the sides of the little ravines down which the spring-streams sang their way to the silver thread of a river in the valley. It was altogether a dizzy perch, a strange, in convenient, out-of-the-way spot for a summer hotel. You reached it all out of breath, con fused as to the points of the compass and dis appointed, in every sense of the word, with What at first glance struck you as a colossal pretense, empty, raw, vulgar, loud a great trap into which you had been inveigled by an eloquent hand-bill! Hotel Helicon, as a name for the place, was considered a happy one. It had come to the proprietor, as if in a dream, one day as he sat smoking. He slapped his thigh with his hand and sprang to his feet. The word that went so smoothly with hotel, as he fancied, had no special meaning in his mind, for the gas man had never been guilty of classical lore study, but it furnished a taking alliteration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Triumph of Christianity
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786073021
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West? In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was God’s messiah. Less than four hundred years later it had become the official religion of Rome with some thirty million followers. It could so easily have been a forgotten sect of Judaism. Through meticulous research, Bart Ehrman, an expert on Christian history, texts and traditions, explores the way we think about one of the most important cultural transformations the world has ever seen, one that has shaped the art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics and economics of modern Western civilisation.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786073021
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West? In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was God’s messiah. Less than four hundred years later it had become the official religion of Rome with some thirty million followers. It could so easily have been a forgotten sect of Judaism. Through meticulous research, Bart Ehrman, an expert on Christian history, texts and traditions, explores the way we think about one of the most important cultural transformations the world has ever seen, one that has shaped the art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics and economics of modern Western civilisation.
The United States Catalog
Author: George Flavel Danforth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Pages : 848
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The American Boys' Workshop
Author: Clarence Budington Kelland
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267575206
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Excerpt from The American Boys' Workshop: Each Subject by an Expert IN the past few years people have awakened to the great value Of fresh air, and camping, which was thought to be the folly of youth or the necessity of backwoods folks, has come into favor. Every available camping'spot is being searched out and utilized. You need not go far away to camp. Boys have been known to pitch their tents on lawns and neighboring farms, in parks and academy grounds, to say nothing of some of the big city youngsters who are forced to choose the roofs of buildings for their open-air home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267575206
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Excerpt from The American Boys' Workshop: Each Subject by an Expert IN the past few years people have awakened to the great value Of fresh air, and camping, which was thought to be the folly of youth or the necessity of backwoods folks, has come into favor. Every available camping'spot is being searched out and utilized. You need not go far away to camp. Boys have been known to pitch their tents on lawns and neighboring farms, in parks and academy grounds, to say nothing of some of the big city youngsters who are forced to choose the roofs of buildings for their open-air home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Golightly Round the Globe (Classic Reprint)
Author: Golightly L. Morrill
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483566941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Excerpt from Golightly Round the Globe Here I found a big, good-natured crowd. The sun and fresh air came in through the open roof, and we had a ringside seat. Soon the referee, fighters and their attendants came in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483566941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Excerpt from Golightly Round the Globe Here I found a big, good-natured crowd. The sun and fresh air came in through the open roof, and we had a ringside seat. Soon the referee, fighters and their attendants came in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Folly
Author: Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0914671375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan." Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearing the land and planning his mansion. Slowly but inevitably, the stranger's charm and the novel's richly inventive language draws Malgas into "the plan" and he sees, feels and moves into the new building. Then, just as remorselessly, all that seemed solid begins to melt back into air.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0914671375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan." Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearing the land and planning his mansion. Slowly but inevitably, the stranger's charm and the novel's richly inventive language draws Malgas into "the plan" and he sees, feels and moves into the new building. Then, just as remorselessly, all that seemed solid begins to melt back into air.
The American Angler
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Pages : 980
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