Opis: Peter Jameson - Frankau Gilbert

Excerpt from Peter Jameson: A Modern Romance<br><br>If you take the Central London Tube to the Bank station; fight for your place in the lift; climb the tortuous staircase to Lombard Street; pass along that narrow money-glutted thoroughfare, where scarlet-vested, top-hatted bank-messengers take dignified way from the sign of the Grasshopper to the swinging doors of the Credit Lyonnais: if, crossing Gracechurch Street below the clock of the London & South-Western Bank, you enter less-aristocratic Fenchurch Street and take the first zig-zag turning on your left, you will find - hidden between a stationer's shop and a grocer's - two swing-doors, each with a brass name-plate, from which the black lettering, "P. Jackson and Company, Cigar Importers," has been almost erased by forty years of incessant polishing. And if you care to penetrate yet further round that gray, curving Lime Street, past the church of St. Andrew Undershaft, into the heart of Havana cigardom, St. Mary Axe, you will still find - clustered round the maroon marble of the Baltic Exchange - the warehouses of Schomstein & Co., of Beresford & Beresford, of Samuel Elkins and Son, and others with whom Peter traded, intrigued, lunched and gossiped, between the years 1903 and 1914.<br><br>But you will not find, search the City as you may, Peter Jackson, sometime senior partner in Peter Jackson & Company, and Chairman of Nirvana Limited, Manufacturers of High-grade Cigarettes. Because - whatever War may have accomplished of good or evil to us other millions whom it caught up into its vortex - to Peter it came like a great cleansing storm, terrifying in its violence, unfathomable in its purposes, but bearing him at last, past many rocks of doubt and fear, to sure harbourage, to certainty of body and of soul - and, better even than these, to Love.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.

Szczegóły: Peter Jameson - Frankau Gilbert

Nazwa: Peter Jameson A Modern Romance (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Frankau Gilbert
Wydawnictwo: Inwestycje
Kod paskowy: 9781330640456
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 428
Format: 15.2x22.9cm

Recenzje: Peter Jameson - Frankau Gilbert