The Plum Tree - Couverture souple

Phillips, David Graham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1500122807 ISBN 13 : 9781500122805

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Présentation de l'éditeur

"We can hold out six months longer,—at least six months." My mother's tone made the six months stretch encouragingly into six long years. I see her now, vividly as if it were only yesterday. We were at our scant breakfast, I as blue as was ever even twenty-five, she brave and confident. And hers was no mere pretense to reassure me, no cheerless optimism of ignorance, but the through-and-through courage and strength of those who flinch for no bogey that life or death can conjure. Her tone lifted me; I glanced at her, and what shone from her eyes set me on my feet, face to the foe. The table-cloth was darned in many places, but so skilfully that you could have looked closely without detecting it. Not a lump of sugar, not a slice of bread, went to waste in that house; yet even I had to think twice to realize that we were poor, desperately poor. She did not hide our poverty; she beautified it, she dignified it into Spartan simplicity. I know it is not the glamour over the past that makes me believe there are no women now like those of the race to which she belonged. The world, to-day, yields comfort too easily to the capable; hardship is the only mould for such character, and in those days, in this middle-western country, even the capable were not strangers to hardship.

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

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1500122807
• ISBN 13: 9781500122805
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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