Opis: The House Behind the Poplars - Beckwith J. R.

Excerpt from The House Behind the Poplars: A Novel<br><br>The gray shades of quick coming evening settled over and around the gloomy homestead of Miles Sterling, standing solitary and half shut in from the street behind a row of Lombardy poplars, which lifted their ragged tops toward the lowering sky as if imploringly.<br><br>There was a comfortless chill in the late autumn air, and ever and anon scattering hail-stones were whirled against the window-panes, in promise of the wintry storm, whose purple clouds scudded over the horizon.<br><br>The bleak hill upon whose crest the house stood, was all unshielded from the forcing blasts which whistled shrill and drearily around the rattling window-panes, and the low, wood-colored building itself, looked as if prematurely hastened to decay by a sense of its own uncared for position in a bleak world.<br><br>Its low windows had never repealed themselves in any second story, but stretched in a row of six along its front, shaded by the melancholy poplars which despised it in summer, and seemingly forsook it in winter, when the heavy, sodden snow of northern Ohio furnished a mantle under which they could screen themselves. Excepting these, the rambling, rail-fenced yard offered no object for the eye to rest upon. Not a flower or shrub broke the tasteless monotony of the tangled weeds and grass which spread down to tho sandy road, along which the teams of the neighboring farmers plodded and dragged in a hopeless, weary way, as if no thought of a better foothood beyond, lent rigor to the effort.<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: The House Behind the Poplars - Beckwith J. R.

Nazwa: The House Behind the Poplars A Novel (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Beckwith J. R.
Wydawnictwo: Inwestycje
Kod paskowy: 9781330647349
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 414
Format: 15.2x22.9cm

Recenzje: The House Behind the Poplars - Beckwith J. R.