2015, ISBN: 9781330109243

Excerpt from Hesper: A Novel Nearly the entire boat-load of passengers was jammed along the forward gates, ready to spring out upon the Jersey wharf, restive to reach the waiting trains. … More...

Excerpt from Hesper: A Novel Nearly the entire boat-load of passengers was jammed along the forward gates, ready to spring out upon the Jersey wharf, restive to reach the waiting trains. But quite apart from all these whose faces were set westward, three people - a girl, a man nearing forty, and a slim lad - lingered on the after-deck as though loath to take their leave of the imperial city whose singular sky-line was becoming each moment more impressive, more unaccountable to those who were looking upon it for the first time. As the big barge drew out into mid-stream, the wharfs, the four-story tenements, and the business blocks rose in dim terraces, one behind the other, till the highest of them all loomed like the crest of a mist-hid mesa, and the lights in the dusk of the lower levels allured like camp-fires in the deeps of wooded vales, while between the little group on the stern of the boat and this smoke-hid range of mysterious peaks the cold, gray water rolled, ever widening, menacing, inexorable as death in its power to divide the fortunes of men. 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 Novel (Classic Reprint) Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher > Kinder- & Jugendbücher Taschenbuch 16.06.2015 Buch (fremdspr.), Forgotten Books, .201<

ISBN: 9781330109243

Excerpt from Hesper: A Novel Nearly the entire boat-load of passengers was jammed along the forward gates, ready to spring out upon the Jersey wharf, restive to reach the waiting trains. … More...

Excerpt from Hesper: A Novel Nearly the entire boat-load of passengers was jammed along the forward gates, ready to spring out upon the Jersey wharf, restive to reach the waiting trains. But quite apart from all these whose faces were set westward, three people - a girl, a man nearing forty, and a slim lad - lingered on the after-deck as though loath to take their leave of the imperial city whose singular sky-line was becoming each moment more impressive, more unaccountable to those who were looking upon it for the first time. As the big barge drew out into mid-stream, the wharfs, the four-story tenements, and the business blocks rose in dim terraces, one behind the other, till the highest of them all loomed like the crest of a mist-hid mesa, and the lights in the dusk of the lower levels allured like camp-fires in the deeps of wooded vales, while between the little group on the stern of the boat and this smoke-hid range of mysterious peaks the cold, gray water rolled, ever widening, menacing, inexorable as death in its power to divide the fortunes of men. 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 Novel (Classic Reprint) Buch (fremdspr.) Bücher>Fremdsprachige Bücher>Englische Bücher>Kinder- & Jugendbücher, Forgotten Books<

ISBN: 9781330109243

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