The Poor Gentleman - Couverture souple

Conscience, Hendrik

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 142181143X ISBN 13 : 9781421811437

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2005

Synopsis

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The story of "THE POOR GENTLEMAN," now given in our language for the first time, is one of the series in which M. Conscience has delineated various grades of female character in positions of trial. In "The Village Innkeeper" he has shown the weaker traits of woman distracted between an inborn sense of propriety and a foolish ambition for high, life. In the "Conscript" his heroine displays the nobler virtues of uncorrupted humble life; and, with few characters, taken from the lowest walks, he shows the triumph of honest, straightforward earnestness and pertinacious courage, even when they are brought in conflict with authority. "The Poor Gentleman" closes the series; and, selecting a heroine from the educated classes of his country-people M. Conscience has demonstrated how superior a genuine woman becomes to all the mishaps of fortune, and how successfully she subdues that imaginary fate before which so many are seen to fall.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Near the end of July, 1842, an open calèche might have been seen rolling along one of the three highways that lead from the frontiers of Holland toward Antwerp. Although the vehicle had evidently been cleaned with the utmost care, every thing about it betokened decay. Its joints were open, discolored, and weather-beaten, and it swung from side to side on its springs like a rickety skeleton. Its patched leathers shone in the sunshine with the oil that had been used to freshen them, but the borrowed lustre could not hide the cracks and repairs with which they were defaced. The door-handles and other parts of the vehicle that were made of copper had been carefully polished, and the vestiges of silver-plating, still visible in the creases of the ornaments, denoted a former richness which had been almost entirely worn out by time and use. The calèche was drawn by a stout, heavy horse, whose short and lumbering gait intimated very clearly that he was oftener employed in the plough and cart than in carrying his owner toward the capital.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Poor Gentleman is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Hendrik Conscience is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Hendrik Conscience then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 142181143X
• ISBN 13: 9781421811437
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible