| The Moon Endureth Contributor(s): Buchan, John (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798677084010 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 800 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.55 lbs) 166 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: ...nn and turned a canto of Aristo into halting English couplets. By-and-by it cleared, and I headed westward towards Bozen, among the tangle of rocks where the Dwarf King had once his rose-garden. The first night I had no inn but slept in the vile cabin of a forester, who spoke a tongue half Latin, half Dutch, which I failed to master. The next day was a blaze of heat, the mountain-paths lay thick with dust, and I had no wine from sunrise to sunset. Can you wonder that, when the following noon I saw Santa Chiara sleeping in its green circlet of meadows, my thought was only of a deep draught and a cool chamber? I protest that I am a great lover of natural beauty, of rock and cascade, and all the properties of the poet: but the enthusiasm of Rousseau himself would sink from the stars to earth if he had marched since breakfast in a cloud of dust with a throat like the nether millstone.Yet I had not entered the place before Romance revived. The little town--a mere wayside halting-place on the great mountClose... |