Mirage (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Thurston, E. Temple) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Mirage Hemming in the grey, dreary plot of ground called Torrington Square, there is not one only, there are many boarding-houses. In winter, they look out on to a tangle of black, leafless tree stems in which no bird ever shelters, on to a patch of grass in the square´s centre which is mottled and worn and ugly, on to the grimy, sooty palings which surround this cherished garden of the inhabitants - kept from the intrusion of outsiders as though it were the plantation of Eden instead of a mocking ghost of green fields, a haunting skeleton of forests. And in summer, by the grace of God, the prospect is perhaps a little better than this. But here it is, in the heart of these abodes, that there may be found some of the saddest people in the world. A boarding-house is not a home; it is not a lodging. In a home there is sense of possession. There is sense of possession in those lodgings, the bedroom and sitting-room, that one takes over a tobacconist´s or a greengrocer´s in a busy street. But in a boarding-house there is none. These abodes are the poor-houses, the alms-houses of the gentle, the refined, the well-to-do - pauper the man who can lay claim to nothing but his own soul and that self-respect which becomes the dearest possession that he has. Here is to be found the foreigner, coming to London to learn the language on a pittance that admits of bare living alone. It is a bare living that he gets. 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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