Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04

Out in the middle of the open, fertile country, where the plough was busy turning up the soil round the numerous cheerful little houses, stood a gloomy building that on every side turned bare walls toward the smiling world. No panes of glass caught the ruddy glow of the morning and evening sun and threw back its quivering reflection; three rows of barred apertures drank in all the light of day with insatiable avidity. They were always gaping greedily, and seen against the background of blue spring sky, looked like holes leading into the everlasting darkness. In its heavy gloom the mass of masonry towered above the many smiling homes, but their peaceable inhabitants did not seem to feel oppressed. They ploughed their fields right up to the bare walls, and wherever the building was visible, eyes were turned toward it with an expression that told of the feeling of security that its strong walls gave. Like a landmark the huge building towered above everything else. It might very well have been a temple raised to Gods glory by a grateful humanity, so imposing was it; but if so, it must have been in by-gone ages, for no dwellingseven for the Almightyare built nowadays in so barbaric a style, as if the one object were to keep out light and air! The massive walls were saturated with the dank darkness within, and the centuries had weathered their surface and made on it luxuriant cultures of fungus and mould, and yet they still seemed as if they could stand for an eternity. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 7794
Author: Andersen Nexø, Martin
Release Date: Mar 1, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Muir, Jessie