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John Sherman; and Dhoya

W. B. Yeats

Publisher: Good Press

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John Sherman; and, Dhoya is a novel by W. B. Yeats. Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer. John Sherman is a young man who lives with his mother. They soon move to London only to see that life isn't easy in the city. Excerpt: "For several days there was a new heaven and a new earth. Miss Leland seemed suddenly impressed with the seriousness of life. She was gentleness itself; and as Sherman sat on Sunday mornings in his pocket-handkerchief of a garden under the one tree, with its smoky stem, watching the little circles of sunlight falling from the leaves like a shower of new sovereigns, he gazed at them with a longer and keener joy than heretofore—a new heaven and a new earth, surely! Sherman planted and dug and raked this pocket-handkerchief of a garden most diligently, rooting out the docks and dandelions and mouse-ear and the patches of untimely grass. It was the point of contact between his new life and the old. It was far too small and unfertile and shaded in to satisfy his love of gardener's experiments and early vegetables."
Available since: 12/18/2019.
Print length: 931 pages.

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