Blanche: The Maid of Lille

Blanche: The Maid of Lille

Blanche: The Maid of LilleA few years since we chose to spend the summer in a chlet...
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Author: Schubin, Ossip,1854-1934
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Blanche: The Maid of Lille

Blanche: The Maid of Lille

CHF 12.01 CHF 6.00

Blanche: The Maid of Lille

CHF 12.01 CHF 6.00
Author: Schubin, Ossip,1854-1934
Format: eBook
Language: English

Blanche: The Maid of Lille

A few years since we chose to spend the summer in a chlet among the Dolomites of South Tyrol. Weird, fantastic, inaccessible, mysterious, grotesque, and yet often wearing a jewelled crown of eternal ice, these peaks soared into the ether above and around us. "Nothing," says a recent traveller, "can surpass the majesty and beauty of the towers and ramparts, the battlemented walls, impregnable castles, and gracefully pinnacled cathedrals into the forms of which their summits are built up. Their colouring is another striking characteristic; many of them rivet the eye with the richness of the tints,--deep reds, bright yellows, silvery whites, and the dark blues and blacks of the rocks. But all these colours are modified and softened by a peculiar grayish white tint. The mountains look as if powdered over with some substance less hard and cold than newly fallen snow." Although within a day's drive of Pieve di Cadore,--Titian's birthplace--and not far from Cortina, we could hardly have found a more isolated spot. It was a hermitage, and we knew literally no one within hundreds of miles. Ossip Schubin, the popular German novelist at that time, had sent us a volume of stories, with the request that we would translate them. We selected the story now offered as being most in sympathy with our romantic surroundings. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 35385
Author: Schubin, Ossip
Release Date: Feb 25, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Adams, Sarah Holland, 1824-1916

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