The Man Who Lived in a Shoe (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Forman, Henry James) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Man Who Lived in a Shoe Are there any women to-day, I wonder, like the girl wife of Jacopone da Todi, who are found in the midst of worldly brilliance wearing the hair shirt of piety and devotion over their spotless hearts? I doubt it. It is no wonder that Jacopone, that "smart" thirteenth century Italian lawyer, became a great saint when he made that discovery, after his beautiful young wife´s accidental death. It would make a saint of anybody. I am quite sure Gertrude is not like that. But then Gertrude is not my wife - as yet. Nor am I Jacopone. I am nothing more, I fear, than a contented voluptuary of a bookworm. Like King James, I feel that were it my fate to be a captive, I should wish to be shut up in a great library consuming my days among my fellow-prisoners, the blessed books. To distil the reading of a lifetime into a little wisdom for my poor wits, that has been all my aim and my ambition, if by any name so dynamic as ambition I may call it. An old young man is what I have been called, and Gertrude seems propelled by some potent urge to change me - God knows why. I have just been talking with - I mean listening to - Gertrude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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