ISBN: 9781151083425

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...thine, And when thou wilt clasp me, dear love of mine; For all that is left me is thy cold breath, And wond''ring I wait thee, my sweetheart, Death! IT may be that the high tide of material development which in late years has been sweeping over Southern California has penetrated even to that isolated nook in the hills which, when I knew it, was the saddest place I had ever seen. It was a lonely region, miles and miles away from railroads, telegraphs, newspapers--all the mighty, roaring music of civilization. Off toward the east the desert stretched its level expanse of vague coloring, and westward the rounded hills, green in the winter, yellow as ripe wheat fields through the long, rainless summer, reared their mounds higher and higher until they stopped, as if cowed and ashamed, at the flanks of Monte Pinos. And the mountain, majestic and vapor-veiled, seemed always to be watching them in their work of protecting and comforting the wrecks that clung to their feet. For that was why this region, despite its soft, reposeful beauty, seemed so sad--because of the wrecks, the human wrecks, who dwelt there, who had seized such fast hold of the sphinx-like hills that only death could unloose their grasp. Some of them were relics of California''s heyday, men who, when the waves of hope and adventure and endeavor were rolling fast and high over the Golden State, were so dashed about and bruised and beaten that at last they were glad to be cast ashore among these hills. Some had hidden themselves there because they were weary of the world and all its works, and wished to go where they could no longer hear even its heart-beats. Others there were who had fled thither to escape the scorn of men or the vengeance of the law. And there were a few who were... Florence Finch Kelly, Books, Fiction and Literature, Emerson's Wife; And Other Western Stories Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

2009, ISBN: 1151083429, Lieferbar binnen 4-6 Wochen

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 108 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=6mm, Gew.=168gr, [GR: 21110 - TB/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen],… Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 108 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=6mm, Gew.=168gr, [GR: 21110 - TB/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Fiction - General], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: A.C. McClurg<

2009, ISBN: 9781151083425

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1911Original Publisher: A.C. McClurg Books, Fiction~~Short Stories (single author), Emersons-Wife-And-Other-Western-Stories~… Mehr…

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1911Original Publisher: A.C. McClurg Books, Fiction~~Short Stories (single author), Emersons-Wife-And-Other-Western-Stories~~Florence-Finch-Kelly, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1151083429

EAN: 9781151083425, ISBN: 1151083429 [SW:Fiction - General ; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)], [VD:20091200], Buch (ling.)

2009, ISBN: 9781151083425

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[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: A.C. McClurgVersandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<