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Charles Dudley Warner

Maison d'édition: DigiCat

Synopsis

This is an insightful work by Charles Dudley Warner, a late 19th-century American essayist and novelist. Excerpt  "The fire on the hearth has almost gone out in New England; the hearth has gone out; the family has lost its center; age ceases to be respected; sex is only distinguished by a difference between millinery bills and tailors' bills; there is no more toast-and-cider; the young are not allowed to eat mince-pies at ten o'clock at night; half a cheese is no longer set to toast before the fire; you scarcely ever see in front of the coals a row of roasting apples, which a bright little girl, with many a dive and start, shielding her sunny face from the fire with one hand, turns from time to time; scarce are the gray-haired sires who strop their razors on the family Bible, and doze in the chimney-corner. A good many things have gone out with the fire on the hearth"

Disponible depuis: 11/10/2022.

Longueur d'impression: 138 pages.

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