| The Secret Orchard Contributor(s): Castle, Agnes Egerton (Author), Williams, Charles D. (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0766195880 ISBN-13: 9780766195882 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2004 Annotation: 1900. Begins: Silver and gold lay the landscape beneath the terrace of the Chateau de Fitzroy, this golden month of September, this golden hour of the afternoon. The fields of La Celle bathed in sunlight, the wooded slopes of St. Michel and Marly already autumn yellow, melted into the delicate hazes of the valley where the Seine shimmered distantly, stream of burnished silver between the dim silver of its banks. In the far background, just substantial against the unsubstantial sky line, poised like the last fantastic touch of a romantic painter, rose the ruined arches of Marly aqueduct-that crowning extravagance of the Roy-Soleil. It completed a picture which in its exquisite unreality, its warmth and glow, its richness, its stillness, seemed like the dream of a Claude Lorraine, expressed by that past-mistress of all art, living Nature herself. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.17 lbs) 364 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |
