| The Shuttle: (Frances Hodgson Burnett Classics Collection) Contributor(s): Hodgson Burnett, Frances (Author) |
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ISBN: 1508702039 ISBN-13: 9781508702030 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General |
| Dewey: 800 |
| Lexile Measure: 1140 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.39 lbs) 476 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The journey being likely to be made once in a lifetime, the traveller's intention was to see as much as possible, to visit as many cities cathedrals, ruins, galleries, as his time and purse would allow. People who could speak with any degree of familiarity of Hyde Park, the Champs Elysees, the Pincio, had gained a certain dignity. The ability to touch with an intimate bearing upon such localities was a raison de plus for being asked out to tea or to dinner. To possess photographs and relics was to be of interest, to have seen European celebrities even at a distance, to have wandered about the outside of poets' gardens and philosophers' houses, was to be entitled to respect. The period was a far cry from the time when the Shuttle, having shot to and fro, faster and faster, week by week, month by month, weaving new threads into its web each year, has woven warp and woof until they bind far shore to shore. |