| The Gold Brick Contributor(s): Stephens, Ann S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1985267454 ISBN-13: 9781985267459 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.16 lbs) 396 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A low coast, burdened in every foot of its soil with the luxuriant growth of a tropical climate; a large town, straggling and flat, swarming like a hive of bees with turbulent life. Lights flickering wildly from the windows and dancing with a fantastic and red glare up and down the streets. A dull, hollow sound rolling constantly out upon the stillness of the waters, broken now and then with sharp shrieks as lightning cleaves the thunder gust. This was the scene commanded from the deck of a New England brig, lying in the harbor of Port au Prince, on one of those terrible nights in the end of the last century, when the horrible passions that had rioted through France, like wild beasts ravening for blood, fled across seas and fired themselves anew in the hot life of the tropics. |
