The Wandering Jew Vol 3 Of 5 Classic Reprint

Author : Eugène Sue
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ISBN 13 : 9781331151388
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Wandering Jew, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Eugène Sue and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wandering Jew, Vol. 1 of 3 The Arctic Ocean is encircled by a belt of eternal ice, the desert boundaries of Siberia and of Northern America - the extreme limits of the two worlds are separated by the narrow Straits of Behring. The month of September is just at its close. The equinox comes in with darkness and the northern storms - night will soon displace one of the short and dull days of the poles. The sky, of a dark violet colour, is feebly lighted by a sun which is without heat, whose white disc, scarcely seen above the horizon, turns pale before the dazzling brightness of the snow which covers and conceals the vast steppes. To the north, this desert is bounded by a coast bristling with black and gigantic rocks. At the foot of their Titanic piles lies, motionless, the vast ocean, with its ice-bound waves, extended chains of frozen mountains, whose blue-tinted peaks are lost from view in a mass of snowy vapour. To the east, between the two peaks of Cape Oulikine, the eastern confine of Siberia, there is visible a line of darkish green, whence slowly creep forth numerous white and glassy icebergs. It is Behring's Straits. Beyond it, and towering above it, are the vast granitic masses of the Cape de Galles, the extreme point of North America. These desolate latitudes belong no more to the habitable world; their piercing and fierce cold rends the very stones, cleaves the trees, and bursts the ground, which groans in producing the germs of its icy herbage. No human being would seem endued with power to dare the solitude of these regions of frost and tempest - of famine and of death. 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.