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Summary

The Dawn of a To-morrow (1906) is an existential short story by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  Excerpt:  "There are always two ways of looking at a London fog. When it is thick and yellow in the streets and stings a man's throat and lungs as he breathes it, an awakening in the early morning is either an unearthly and grewsome, or a mysteriously enclosing, secluding, and comfortable thing. If one awakens in a healthy body, and with a clear brain rested by normal sleep, one may lie watching the housemaid building the fire; and in so lying and realizing that leaping light and warmth and a soft bed are good things, one may turn over on one's back, stretching arms and legs luxuriously, drawing deep breaths and smiling at a knowledge of the fog outside which makes half-past eight o'clock on a December morning as dark as twelve o'clock on a December night. Under such conditions the soft, thick, yellow gloom has its picturesque and even humorous aspect."

Duration: about 2 hours (02:02:17)
Publishing date: 2019-02-28; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2019. Copyright Statment: —

• Religion
• Contemporary Fiction