The Merry Men
Book Excerpt: ...elshelf and the three-cornered spittoons, filled with sea-shells instead of sand, on the floor; with the bare stone walls and the bare wooden floor, and the three patchwork rugs that were of yore its sole adornment - poor man's patchwork, the like of it unknown in cities, woven with homespun, and Sunday black, and sea-cloth polished on the bench of rowing. The room, like the house, had been a sort of wonder in that country-side, it was so neat and habitable; and to see it now, shamed by these incongruous additions, filled me with indignation and a kind of anger. In view of the errand I had come upon to Aros, the feeling was baseless and unjust; but it burned high, at the first moment, in my heart.'Mary, girl,' said I, 'this is the place I had learned to call my home, and I do not know it.''It is my home by nature, not by the learning,' she replied; 'the place I was born and the place I'm like to die in; and I neither like these changes, nor the way they came, nor that which came with them. I wClose...
yazar | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Tarafından yayınlandı | 1 Ekim 2020 |
4 Ocak 2017 G. A. Henty 15,2 x 0,7 x 22,9 cm 1 x 13,5 x 19,5 cm 15,2 x 0,6 x 22,9 cm 5 Ocak 2017 19,5 x 13,5 cm 3 Ocak 2017 19,5 x 1 x 13,5 cm 1 x 13,5 x 21 cm Kolektif H. G. Wells 1 Ekim 2020 28 Şubat 2018 B M Bower F Scott Fitzgerald Jack London 1 Ocak 2018
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yazar | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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isbn 13 | 979-8676178437 |
Yayımcı | Independently published |
DE OLDUĞU GİBİ | B08KFWM7JK |
Tarafından yayınlandı The Merry Men | 1 Ekim 2020 |