Manassas: A Novel of the War - Couverture rigide

Sinclair, Upton

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 129789023X ISBN 13 : 9781297890239

Editeur : Sagwan Press, 2015

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Two-storied, with double porticos upon three sides and great white pillars about which a mans arms would scarcely go, it was hidden in a grove of pecans and magnolias which had the depth and stillness of cathedral archways. The ground beneath was soft and glossy, and one wondered if the deep, rich green had ever been trod by a foot. It wasM arch, andS outhern springtime. The great magnolias, some of them a hundred feet high, were in the full tide of their splendor, their crisp, polished leaves scarcely visible for the snow-white flowers which covered them. Here and there about the lawn were rose trees of twice a mans height, flashing like beacons with their weight of cloth-of-gold roses a span across, crimson and orange, and with petals soft and heavy as velvet. A bout the lawn were scattered banana and fig trees, pomegranates, china trees, and huge flaming scarlet lobelias. Tall hedges of jasmine and sweetbrier ran around the house and along the sides of the lawn, while beyond them on one side stretched a grove of orange trees in full blossom, a sea of flowers which loaded the breeze with sweetness and brought a drunkenness to every sense. Upon the other side was the flower garden, whose riot of color and perfume had gathered the bees and humming-birds from miles around, filling the air with a sound as of distant machinery. It was high noon, and the sultry air was heavy with sunlight.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sagwan Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 129789023X
• ISBN 13: 9781297890239
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424