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Across The Stream - Couverture souple

Benson, E F

 
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Synopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this book Benson attacks spiritualism. Show Excerpt d have taken the following mould: There was something odd about females, and it was a mystery into which he did not at all want to enquire. They wore skirts, which perhaps concealed some abnormality, which would be fearful to contemplate. They had soft faces and soft bodies; when his mother took him on her knee--she already said that he was getting too big a boy to sit on her knee, which to Archie sounded very grand and delightful--she was soft to his shoulder, and her cheek was soft to his. But when he sat on his father's knee, he felt a hard firm substance behind him, and the contrast was similar to the contrast between his mother's soft cushions and his father's leather-clad chairs. And his father had a hard bristly cheek on which to receive Archie's goodnight kiss. Judged by the standards of pleasure and luxury it was not nearly as nice as his mother's, but it gave him, however great need there was for caution, a sense of identity with himself. He was of that species.... And this conception of abno

Présentation de l'éditeur

A classic supernatural romance concerning the life of Archie from childhood to adulthood. The novel features a psychic element, delicately treated, until it grows to become one of the real themes of this fascinating work.

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