Men Like Gods: Large Print
Mr. Barnstaple found himself in urgent need of a holiday, and he had no one to go with and nowhere to go. He was overworked. And he was tired of home.He was a man of strong natural affections; he loved his family extremely so that he knew it by heart, and when he was in these jaded moods it bored him acutely. His three sons, who were all growing up, seemed to get leggier and larger every day; they sat down in the chairs he was just going to sit down in; they played him off his own pianola; they filled the house with hoarse, vast laughter at jokes that one couldn't demand to be told; they cut in on the elderly harmless flirtations that had hitherto been one of his chief consolations in this vale; they beat him at tennis; they fought playfully on the landings, and fell downstairs by twos and threes with an enormous racket. Their hats were everywhere. They were late for breakfast. They went to bed every night in a storm of uproar: "Haw, Haw, Haw-bump!" and their mother seemed to like it. They all cost money, with a cheerful disregard of the fact that everything had gone up except Mr. Barnstaple's earning power. And when he said a few plain truths about Mr. Lloyd George at meal-times, or made the slightest attempt to raise the tone of the table-talk above the level of the silliest persiflage, their attention wandered ostentatiously....
| yazar | H G Wells |
|---|---|
| Tarafından yayınlandı | 23 Şubat 2020 |
1 Ocak 2018 15,2 x 0,7 x 22,9 cm 15,2 x 0,6 x 22,9 cm G. A. Henty 28 Şubat 2018 19,5 x 1 x 13,5 cm 1 x 13,5 x 19,5 cm 3 Ocak 2017 4 Ocak 2017 Kolektif 19,5 x 13,5 cm Jack London B M Bower 5 Ocak 2017 H. G. Wells 1 x 13,5 x 21 cm 1 Ocak 2017 F Scott Fitzgerald
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| yazar | H G Wells |
|---|---|
| isbn 13 | 979-8616990839 |
| Yayımcı | Independently Published |
| DE OLDUĞU GİBİ | B0851MXWPC |
| Tarafından yayınlandı Men Like Gods: Large Print | 23 Şubat 2020 |
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