Описание: | Thus, at five and fifty, he found himself gatekeeper of the leviathan Chippering Mill in the City of Hampton. Thus was Edward Bumpus severed and rolled from the ancestral ledge, from the firm granite of seemingly stable and lasting things, into shifting shale; surrounded by fragments of cliffs from distant lands he had never seen. 1917. In this modern industrial civilization of which we are sometimes wont to boast, a certain glacier-like process may be observed. Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по восстановлению первоначального качества издания, на некоторых страницах могут обнаружиться небольшие "огрехи": помарки, кляксы и т. п. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1917 года (издательство "New York, The Macmillan company"). The bewildered, the helpless, and there are many, are torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left stranded in strange places. |