Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis
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ISBN: 9781332826926
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Excerpt from Inklings of Adventure, Vol. 1 of 2 Rector of Burton, Northamptonshire, and Vicar of Biddenham, Bedfordshire. Fluther of the life of the Rev. Legh Richmond. 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.
Author: William Black
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483341548
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Excerpt from The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton, Vol. 1 of 2 IT was all settled one evening in the deep winter time. Outside, a sharp east wind was whistling round the solitudes of Box Hill; the Mole, at the foot of our garden, as it stole stealthily through the darkness, crackled the flakes of ice that lay along its level banks; and away on Mickleham Downs - and on the further uplands towards the sea - the cold stars were shining down on a thin coating of snow. Indoors there was another story to tell; for the mistress of the house - Queen Titania, as we call her -a small person, with a calm, handsome, pale face. 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.
Author: Wiley & Putnam, Firm, publishers, London
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: William Black
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330737330
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Excerpt from The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton, Vol. 2 of 2 "Come down, come down, my bonnie bird, And eat bread a IF my band; Your cage shall be of wiry goud, Whar now it's but the wand." "You are the most provoking husband I ever met with," says Queen Titania. "We are climbing up the steep ascent which leads from the village of Ellesmere to the site of an ancient castle. The morning is full of a breezy sunshine, and the cool north-wester stirs here and there a grey ripple on the blue waters of the lake below. "I hope you have not had much experience in that direction," I observe. "Very pretty. That is very nice indeed. We are improving, are we not?" she says, turning to Bell. 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.
Author: Grevel Lindop
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191063126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings—the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams—novelist, poet, theologian, magician and guru—was the strangest, most multi-talented, and most controversial member of the group. He was a pioneering fantasy writer, who still has a cult following. C.S. Lewis thought his poems on King Arthur and the Holy Grail were among the best poetry of the twentieth century for 'the soaring and gorgeous novelty of their technique, and their profound wisdom'. But Williams was full of contradictions. An influential theologian, Williams was also deeply involved in the occult, experimenting extensively with magic, practising erotically-tinged rituals, and acquiring a following of devoted disciples. Membership of the Inklings, whom he joined at the outbreak of the Second World War, was only the final phase in a remarkable career. From a poor background in working-class London, Charles Williams rose to become an influential publisher, a successful dramatist, and an innovative literary critic. His friends and admirers included T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and the young Philip Larkin. A charismatic personality, he held left-wing political views, and believed that the Christian churches had dangerously undervalued sexuality. To redress the balance, he developed a 'Romantic Theology', aiming at an approach to God through sexual love. He became the most admired lecturer in wartime Oxford, influencing a generation of young writers before dying suddenly at the height of his powers. This biography draws on a wealth of documents, letters and private papers, many never before opened to researchers, and on more than twenty interviews with people who knew Williams. It vividly recreates the bizarre and dramatic life of this strange, uneasy genius, of whom Eliot wrote, 'For him there was no frontier between the material and the spiritual world.'
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334127991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Excerpt from The Hand of Ethelberta, Vol. 1 of 2: A Comedy in Chapters Well to be sure!' exclaimed a milkman, regard ing her. We should freeze in our beds if 'twere not for the sun, and, dang me I if She isn't a pretty piece. A man could make a meal between them eyes and chin - eh, hostler? Odd nation dang my Old Sides if he couldn't! The speaker, who had been carrying a pair of pails on a yoke, deposited them upon the edge of the pave ment in front of the inn, and straightened his back to an excruciating perpendicular. His remarks had been addressed to a rickety person, wearing a waistcoat of that preternatural length from the top to the bottom button which prevails among men who have to do with horses. He was sweeping straws from the carriage way beneath the stone arch that formed a passage to the stables behind. 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.
Author: Charles Kingsley
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330742310
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Excerpt from At Last, Vol. 1 of 2: A Christmas in the West Indies My dear Sir Arthur Gordon, To whom should I dedicate this book, but to you, to whom I owe my visit to the West Indies? I regret that I could not consult you about certain matters in Chapters XIV. and XV.: but you are away again over sea; and I can only send the book after you, such as it is, with the expression of my hearty belief that you will be to the people of Mauritius what you have been to the people of Trinidad. I could say much more. But it is wisest often to be most silent on the very points on which one longs most to speak. 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."
Author: M. E. Braddon
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483976986
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Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Excerpt from One Thing Needful, Vol. 1 of 2 Yet, although its smoke made no stain upon the blue sky above yonder gray towers, Brumm had an influence on the inhabitants Of Lashmar Castle, and that by no means a pleasant influence; as witnessed by her ladyship's temper upon this particular morning, as she sat at breakfast in the oak parlour, with her step-son, Lord Lashmar, and the Eton boy, her son. 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.
Author: J. M. Barrie
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267196524
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Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Excerpt from Tommy and Grizel, Vol. 1 of 2 He had no beard. Young man, let your beard grow. Those who have forgotten all else about Pym may recall him in these words. They were his one counsel to literary aspirants, who, according as they took it, are now bearded and prosperous or Shaven and on the rates. To shave costs three pence, another threepence for loss of time nearly ten pounds a year, three hundred pounds since Pym's chin first bristled. With his heard he could have bought an annuity or a cottage in the coun try, he could have had a wife and children, and driven his dog-cart, and been made a church-war den. All gone, all shaved, and for what? When he asked this question he would move his hand across his chin with a sigh, and so, bravely to the barber's. Pym was at present Suffering from an ailment that had spread him out on that sofa again and again acute disinclination to work. 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.
Author: Frederick Wedmore
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ISBN: 9781331288701
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Excerpt from A Snapt Gold Ring, Vol. 1 of 2 If London streets are tolerable at any time, they are tolerable in the cheerful bustle of early evening, when in the main thoroughfares carriage traffic is lessened, when shopping is over, when the stress of daily occupations is past, and the stream of middle - class life, released from counter and work-room, sets briskly westward for an hour of exercise in the fresher air of suburb or park. So thought Paul Warner, as he stood by the door of his club, in Hanover Square, about eight o'clock on a July evening, and considered what he should do. 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.
