The Chastisement of Mansour (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (France, Hector) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Chastisement of Mansour On horseback, riding among my comrades of the red cavalry, I jotted down the first outlines of this book. Then I forgot all about the flying leaves that, burned brown by the sun, stained by rain and damp, frayed against the saddle, torn and tumbled, lost in cantonments and found again, had lain by me so long. But on an evening in December, when the London fog hung heavy on the lungs, entering and the English spleen along with it - at every chink and crevice of ill-fitting door or window, I was fain to forget a while my exile and my surroundings and the inexorable flight of time. And like a mare that heat of blood spurs on, my thought burst its shackles and escaped, and fled to the wide spaces of the past, tracing the days gone by to the far-off horizon where the sky shines blue. Ah! the wild gallops down the valleys and between the hills where dwarf-oaks grow and olives, pomegranates and cactus; the merry rides over the plain, following the long line of oleanders that clothe with their graceful festoons the sterile river-banks of crumbling chalk; the long halts under the bushy tamarinds beside the cool spring, whither the dark-eyed maids of the desert come to draw water. 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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