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Book Synopsis The Portent; And Other Stories by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent; And Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis The Portent and Other Stories by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1909 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Portent and Other Stories by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents The portent -- The cruel painter -- The castle -- The wow o' rivven -- The broken swords -- The gray wolf -- Uncle Cornelius his story.
Book Synopsis The Portent ... by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent ... written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories written by MacDonald George and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Book Synopsis The Portent and Other Stories by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No more than the whispering suggestion upon the wind -- then the clear sense comes to Duncan's ears: "The rushing of a horse across the heath -- with an odd tinkling, as of one loose shoe . . ." "Tell me that was not what you heard!" says his nurse, when Duncan tells her. The youth is just making his way into the world -- heading to London to become a gentleman -- when this ill portent comes to his ears. "The Portent" is one of seven tales of mystery, imagination and the Scottish "second sense," by the northern master of the magical, George MacDonald.
Book Synopsis Beiträge Zur Biologie Der Pflanzen by : J U Kern (max Muller)
Download or read book Beiträge Zur Biologie Der Pflanzen written by J U Kern (max Muller) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Book Synopsis The Portent & Other Stories by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent & Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by Tredition Classics. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
Book Synopsis The Portent and Other Stories - Scholar's Choice Edition by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories - Scholar's Choice Edition written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Portent and Other Stories George MacDonald by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories George MacDonald written by George MacDonald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY DEAR SIR, KENSINGTON, May, 1864. Allow me, with the honour due to my father's friend, to inscribe this little volume with your name. The name of one friend is better than those of all the Muses. And permit me to say a few words about the story.-It is a Romance. I am well aware that, with many readers, this epithet will be enough to ensure condemnation. But there ought to be a place for any story, which, although founded in the marvellous, is true to human nature and to itself. Truth to Humanity, and harmony within itself, are almost the sole unvarying essentials of a work of art. Even The Rime of the Ancient Mariner-than which what more marvellous?-is true in these respects. And Shakespere himself will allow any amount of the marvellous, provided this truth is observed. I hope my story is thus true; and therefore, while it claims some place, undeserving of being classed with what are commonly called sensational novels...
Download or read book The Portent written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grasp of the hand was all the good-bye I could make; and I was soon rattling away to meet the coach for Edinburgh and London. Seated on the top, I was soon buried in a reverie, from which I was suddenly startled by the sound of tinkling iron. Could it be that my adversary was riding unseen alongside of the coach? Was that the clank of the ominous shoe?
Book Synopsis The Portent and Other Stories by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the opposite side the valley, another hill lay parallel to mine; and behind it, at some miles' distance, a great mountain. As often as, in my hermit's cave, I lifted my eyes from the volume I was reading, I saw this mountain before me. Very different was its character from that of the hill on which I was seated. It was a mighty thing, a chieftain of the race, seamed and scarred, featured with chasms and precipices and over-leaning rocks, themselves huge as hills; here blackened with shade, there overspread with glory; interlaced with the silvery lines of falling streams, which, hurrying from heaven to earth, cared not how they went, so it were downwards. Fearful stories were told of the gulfs, sullen waters, and dizzy heights upon that terror-haunted mountain. In storms the wind roared like thunder in its caverns and along the jagged sides of its cliffs, but at other times that uplifted land-uplifted, yet secret and full of dismay-lay silent as a cloud on the horizon.I had a certain peculiarity of constitution, which I have some reason to believe I inherit. It seems to have its root in an unusual delicacy of hearing, which often conveys to me sounds inaudible to those about me. This I have had many opportunities of proving. It has likewise, however, brought me sounds which I could never trace back to their origin; though they may have arisen from some natural operation which I had not perseverance or mental acuteness sufficient to discover. From this, or, it may be, from some deeper cause with which this is connected, arose a certain kind of fearfulness associated with the sense of hearing, of which I have never heard a corresponding instance. Full as my mind was of the wild and sometimes fearful tales of a Highland nursery, fear never entered my mind by the eyes, nor, when I brooded over tales of terror, and fancied new and yet more frightful embodiments of horror, did I shudder at any imaginable spectacle, or tremble lest the fancy should become fact, and from behind the whin-bush or the elder-hedge should glide forth the tall swaying form of the Boneless. When alone in bed, I used to lie awake, and look out into the room, peopling it with the forms of all the persons who had died within the scope of my memory and acquaintance. These fancied forms were vividly present to my imagination. I pictured them pale, with dark circles around their hollow eyes, visible by a light which glimmered within them; not the light of life, but a pale, greenish phosphorescence, generated by the decay of the brain inside. Their garments were white and trailing, but torn and soiled, as by trying often in vain to get up out of the buried coffin.
Book Synopsis The Honour of the Army and Other Stories by : Émile Zola
Download or read book The Honour of the Army and Other Stories written by Émile Zola and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis George MacDonald - The Portent & Other Stories by : George MacDonald
Download or read book George MacDonald - The Portent & Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by Miniature Masterpieces. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George MacDonald was born on December 10th 1824 at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland where he grew up with the Congregational Church, with its atmosphere of Calvinism to which George never really attached himself. His mother when he was only 8 and by 16 George was successful in obtaining a bursary to King's College in Aberdeen and from which he also received his M.A. In 1846 George had his first poem published anonymously. By 1848 he was attending Highbury Theological College to study for the Congregational ministry and also engaged to Louisa Powell. By 1850 George was appointed as the pastor of Trinity Congregational Church in Arundel. Later that year he suffered his first severe haemorrhage in what was to become a lifelong battle with declining health. In his ministry his sermons were at odds with the Church and their more segmented views. Three years later he resigned from the pulpit. His collection of poems 'Within and Without' was published in 1855 and in 1858 so too was 'Phantastes'. His career would now flourish and along with very successful lecture tours were published such classics as 'At the Back of the North Wind', 'Wilfrid Cumbermede', 'The Princess and the Goblin' and 'Exotics'. From 1880 he and his family moved to Bordighera on the Riviera dei Fiori in Liguria, Italy, where he spent 20 years writing. But ill health continued to strike at him. By 1898 a stroke had taken his voice. In 1901 George and Louisa were able to celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary though sadly Louisa was to pass away on January 13th, 1902 whilst at Bordighera. On 18th September 1905 George MacDonald died at Sagamore, Ashtead in Surrey. He was cremated and his ashes buried at Bordighera, in the English cemetery, along with his wife Louisa and daughters Lilia and Grace.
Book Synopsis In the Kingdom of Kerry and Other Stories by : Bithia Mary Croker
Download or read book In the Kingdom of Kerry and Other Stories written by Bithia Mary Croker and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Portent and Other Stories by : George MacDonald
Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One summer evening, I had lingered longer than usual in my rocky retreat: I had lain halfdreaming in the mouth of my cave, till the shadows of evening had fallen, and the gloaming haddeepened half-way towards the night. But the night had no more terrors for me than the day.Indeed, in such regions there is a solitariness for which there seems a peculiar sense, and uponwhich the shadows of night sink with a strange relief, hiding from the eye the wide space which yetthey throw more open to the imagination. When I lifted my head, only a star here and there caughtmy eye; but, looking intently into the depths of blue-grey, I saw that they were crowded withtwinkles. The mountain rose before me, a huge mass of gloom; but its several peaks stood outagainst the sky with a clear, pure, sharp outline, and looked nearer to me than the bulk from whichthey rose heaven-wards. One star trembled and throbbed upon the very tip of the loftiest, thecentral peak, which seemed the spire of a mighty temple where the light was worshipped-crowned, therefore, in the darkness, with the emblem of the day. I was lying, as I have said, with this fancy stillin my thought, when suddenly I heard, clear, though faint and far away, the sound as of the ironshod hoofs of a horse, in furious gallop along an uneven rocky surface. It was more like a distantecho than an original sound. It seemed to come from the face of the mountain, where no horse, Iknew, could go at that speed, even if its rider courted certain destruction. There was a peculiarity, too, in the sound-a certain tinkle, or clank, which I fancied myself able, by auricular analysis, todistinguish from the body of the sound. Supposing the sound to be caused by the feet of a horse, the peculiarity was just such as would result from one of the shoes being loose. A terror-strangeeven to my experience-seized me, and I hastened home. The sounds gradually died away as Idescended the hill. Could they have been an echo from some precipice of the mountain? I knew ofno road lying so that, if a horse were galloping upon it, the sounds would be reflected from themountain to me.The next day, in one of my rambles, I found myself near the cottage of my old foster-mother, who was distantly related to us, and was a trusted servant in the family at the time I was born. Onthe death of my mother, which took place almost immediately after my birth, she had taken theentire charge of me, and had brought me up, though with difficulty; for she used to tell me, I shouldnever be either folk or fairy. For some years she had lived alone in a cottage, at the bottom of a deepgreen circular hollow, upon which, in walking over a healthy table-land, one came with a suddensurprise. I was her frequent visitor. She was a tall, thin, aged woman, with eager eyes, and welldefined clear-cut features. Her voice was harsh, but with an undertone of great tenderness. She wasscrupulously careful in her attire, which was rather above her station. Altogether, she had much thebearing of a gentle-woman. Her devotion to me was quite motherly. Never having had any family ofher own, although she had been the wife of one of my father's shepherds, she expended the wholematernity of her nature upon me. She was always my first resource in any perplexity, for I was sureof all the help she could give me. And as she had much influence with my father, who was rathersevere in his notions, I had had occasion to beg her interference. No necessity of this sort, however, had led to my visit on the present occa
