Gods (Classic Reprint)
Preis: | 19.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
Partner: | buecher.de |
Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Desmond, Shaw) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Gods The drone of his father´s voice came to him where he knelt, losing itself in the zooming of the bee, a great velvety-backed fellow that clambered through the Marechal Niel outside in the scented air of a London June, lulling him to sleep and to dreams. "Oh God! have mercy upon us poor miserable sinners ... have mercy ... mercy ... Send down thy lightnings upon the stiff-necked and wicked..." The boy found himself checked into a consciousness through which began to steal, irrelevantly, questions the questions - he was beginning to ask "God." Who was God? Was He? The interrogation hooked itself incredibly into the entity that was Finn Fontaine, dragging him into full consciousness. "... save us from the worm that dieth not and the fire that is not quenched..." He could see his father´s trousers, of nondescript seediness, where he crouched small and shrunken before the Lord. Beyond, his mother, unyielding, held herself stiffly on the thin carpet. It was as though he had seen them for the first time. They were strangers - hostile. But God? There was the hairy sackclothed giant which had materialised in the twilight of babyhood, holding Itself aloof and menacing. That had never been his, though it had held itself, remote, bogeyish, through his seventeen years of life... But God? 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.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.