Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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The story of Aucassin and Nicolette was unknown to the general reader in England until Walter Pater first published his "Renaissance." Today it is known and ready by all and is considered the best love story in the world. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. A. & C. Black, London. Published at $3.50...
Forster in his "Life of Dickens," says of this little classic: "It seems to me this story is a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it, a personal kindness." A charming book, beautifully printed and illustrated. Large 8vo. Cloth. Decorated cover. G. G. Harrap, Ltd., London...
There is no doubt that Gray's words go straight to the heart, for they embody in simplest fashion the most universal experience of human nature. His "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen," "Some mute inglorious Milton," "The rude forefathers of the hamlet," "The paths of glory...
THE IMITATION OF CHRIST. By Thomas A. Kempis. With designs and Illustrations by W. Russell Flint.
"And so it remains to all time, a lasting record of human needs and human consolations; the voice of a brother who ages ago felt and suffered and renounced. In the cloister; perhaps, with serge gown and tonsored head, with a fashion of speech different from ours, but under the...