Water of the Wondrous Isles - Couverture souple

Morris, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0345024214 ISBN 13 : 9780345024213

Editeur : Ballantine Books Inc., 1972

Synopsis

Book by MORRIS WILLIAM with introduction by CARTER LIN

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Utterhay, which was builded in a bight of the land a little off the great highway which went from over the mountains to the sea. The said town was hard on the borders of a wood, which men held to be mighty great, or maybe measureless ;though few indeed had entered it, and they that had, brought back tales wild and confused thereof Therein was neither highway nor byway, nor wood-reeve nor way-warden; never came chap man thence into Utterhay ;no man of Utterhay was so poor or so bold that he durst raise the vj hunt therein ;no outlaw durst flee thereto ;no man of God had such trust in the saints that he i durst build him a cell in that wood. For all men deemed it more than perilous ;and some said that there walked the worst of the dead; othersome that the Goddesses of the Gentiles haunted there; others again that it was the faery rather, but they full of malice and guile.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Whilom, as tells the tale, was a walled cheaping-town hight Utterhay, which was builded in a bight of the land a little off the great highway which went from over the mountains to the sea. The said town was hard on the borders of a wood, which men held to be mighty great, or maybe measureless; though few indeed had entered it, and they that had, brought back tales wild and confused thereof. Therein was neither highway nor byway, nor wood-reeve nor way-warden; never came chapman thence into Utterhay; no man of Utterhay was so poor or so bold that he durst raise the hunt therein; no outlaw durst flee thereto; no man of God had such trust in the saints that he durst build him a cell in that wood. For all men deemed it more than perilous; and some said that there walked the worst of the dead; othersome that the Goddesses of the Gentiles haunted there; others again that it was the faery rather, but they full of malice and guile. But most commonly it was deemed that the devils swarmed amidst of its thickets, and that wheresoever a man sought to, who was once environed by it, ever it was the Gate of Hell whereto he came. And the said wood was called Evilshaw.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0345024214
• ISBN 13: 9780345024213
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 381
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible