The Lure of the Mask-Classic Edition(Illustarted)

The Lure of the Mask-Classic Edition(Illustarted) PDF Author: Harold MacGrath
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Languages : en
Pages : 314

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The Lure of the Mask is a 1908 novel by Harold MacGrath that was the fourth-best selling book in the United States for that year.In 1906-07, MacGrath made visits to Italy, and his impressions from those trips inspired the novel.A 1908 review of the book summarizes the light plot of the story in overenthusiastic fashion:The story opens with a jump--literally. A young New Yorker, rich, of course, hears from his window on a night of fog and mist a woman's voice singing divinely. He falls in love with it head over heels and he falls downstairs in about the same way, he is such a hurry to see the singer. But by the time her reaches the street, lo! she has vanished, and only a policeman remains.

The Lure of the Mask-Classic Edition(Illustarted)

The Lure of the Mask-Classic Edition(Illustarted) PDF Author: Harold MacGrath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Book Description
The Lure of the Mask is a 1908 novel by Harold MacGrath that was the fourth-best selling book in the United States for that year.In 1906-07, MacGrath made visits to Italy, and his impressions from those trips inspired the novel.A 1908 review of the book summarizes the light plot of the story in overenthusiastic fashion:The story opens with a jump--literally. A young New Yorker, rich, of course, hears from his window on a night of fog and mist a woman's voice singing divinely. He falls in love with it head over heels and he falls downstairs in about the same way, he is such a hurry to see the singer. But by the time her reaches the street, lo! she has vanished, and only a policeman remains.

The Lure of the Mask (Classic Reprint)

The Lure of the Mask (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Harold Macgrath
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527709140
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Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Excerpt from The Lure of the Mask As the invisible comes suddenly out of the future to assume distinct proportions which either make or mar us, so did this unknown mutatrice come out of the fog that night and enter into Hillard's life, to readjust its ambitions, to divert its aimless course. To give impetus to it, and a directness which hitherto it had not knoivn. 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.