The Wicked Woods of Tobereevil - Couverture rigide

Gilbert, Rosa M 1841-1921

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1355028280 ISBN 13 : 9781355028284

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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SIMON FINISTON was owner of Tobereevil, including Monasterlea; and the Wicked Woods were part of the patrimony of his race. Ou one side of his mansion lay long stretches of unploughed fields, and pathless bog and moor. Behind him rose undulating mountains, clothed with the rich hues of gorse and broom. The thick woods wrapped him round about, would scarce let the sun shine down upon his roof, and crowded in brilliant masses towards the horizon on the east. The Golden Mountain, which did not belong to Simon, towered against the southern sky, so that the lower hills beside it looked like the ridges of a wave upon the sea. The lands of Tobereevil lie in a remote part of the west of Ireland. They had beauty at the worst of times; but, now that the curse has passed away, they are lovely and peaceful as a vision of Arcadia. At the time of the beginning of this story, they were sadder and drearier than it is needful to describe. The curse was upon them then. Old Simon, the miser, was lord of many mountains and moors, of many waste places that ought to have been fields, many fields that might have been gardens, many hovels that might have been comfortable homes, and some spirit-broken serfs who might have been grateful and light-hearted friends. Yet Simon of Tobereevil was rather pitied than blamed; for was he not working out the doom, and suffering the punishment, of a race accursed? A strange story is told of this curse of the Finistons of Tobereevil. One Paul Finiston had come into the district when, as the legend saith, the country was prosperous, the people well housed and clad. He was a man who came no one knew whence, and had amassed money no one knew how. Some said he had made a fortune by usury. He had, however, the desire to make himself a gentleman; and had bought the estate of a decayed old family, which, after the usual long struggle, had dropped i

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1355028280
• ISBN 13: 9781355028284
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible