Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) The other winter, as I was taking a morning...
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Author: Howells, William Dean,1837-1920
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Language: English
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Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)

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Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)

$106.04 $53.00
Author: Howells, William Dean,1837-1920
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)

The other winter, as I was taking a morning walk down to the East River, I came upon a bit of our motley life, a fact of our piebald civilization, which has perplexed me from time to time, ever since, and which I wish now to leave with the reader, for his or her more thoughtful consideration. The morning was extremely cold. It professed to be sunny, and there was really some sort of hard glitter in the air, which, so far from being tempered by this effulgence, seemed all the stonier for it. Blasts of frigid wind swept the streets, and buffeted each other in a fury of resentment when they met around the corners. Although I was passing through a populous tenement-house quarter, my way was not hindered by the sports of the tenement-house children, who commonly crowd one from the sidewalks; no frowzy head looked out over the fire-escapes; there were no peddlers carts or voices in the road-way; not above three or four shawl-hooded women cowered out of the little shops with small purchases in their hands; not so many tiny girls with jugs opened the doors of the beer saloons. The butchers windows were painted with patterns of frost, through which I could dimly see the frozen meats hanging like hideous stalactites from the roof. When I came to the river, I ached in sympathy with the shipping painfully atilt on the rocklike surface of the brine, which broke against the piers, and sprayed itself over them like showers of powdered quartz. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 3379
Author: Howells, William Dean
Release Date: Oct 22, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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