Author : Jean Webster
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332812608
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)
Book Synopsis The Wheat Princess (Classic Reprint) by : Jean Webster
Download or read book The Wheat Princess (Classic Reprint) written by Jean Webster and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wheat Princess The lower slopes of the hill on which the village stands are well wooded and green with stone-pines and cypresses, olive orchards and vineyards. Here the princes built their villas when the wars with the mm were safely at an end and they could risk coming down from their stronghold on the mountain. The old villa was built about a mile below the town, and the gardens were laid out in terraces and parterres along the slope of the bill. It has long been in ruin, but its foundations still stand, and the plan of the gardens may easily be traced. You will see the entrance at the left of the road - a massive stone gateway topped with moss-covered urns and a double row of cone-shaped cy presses bordering a once stately avenue now grown over with weeds. If you pause for a moment - and you cannot help doing so - you will see, between the portals at the end of the avenue, some crumbling arches, and even, if your, eyes are good, the fountain itself. 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.