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Excerpt from Out of the Silences This all-pervading silence is hushed into deeper stillness by thickly falling snow, and even the deeper stillness, which makes the eardrums of those who hear it ache, is intensified when at intervals it is broken by the howl of the gray wolf, hunger haunted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a repro...

Excerpt from A Cry in the WildernessI was leaning from the window in my attic room in the Old district of New York known as Chelsea both hands were stemmed on the ledge.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pres...

Excerpt from From an Island Outpost As work interpreting life has taught me, as life sustained by work has given me. My first breathing spell in nine years, and during these nine years I have worked steadily, like a dray-horse, in the harness of necessity. Not once in all these years has that necessity loosened so much as a check-rein, - and there has been much uphill work, - to ease me mercifully till to-day. No wonder I am sitting here i...

Excerpt from My Ragpicker What a stately dame! You think I'm dreaming? Oh, no, only seeing visions. You know my weakness, indulge me. What was I saying about the lady? Oh, you all know her - Notre Dame of Paris. But do you know anything about the quarter of the Buttes-Chaumont? Anything of its weedy wastes where the butchers of La Villette keep their cattle? Of its by-ways and blind alleys, of its tumble-down sheds and glaring lime-washed h...

Excerpt from Our Benny The Coming of the Letter "Strange how the frosts of our winter get into the bones of us old folks! Here I be nigh on to eighty, yet play second fiddle to no one, When, in the height of the summer, I work side by side with the reapers, Or, later on, at the huskin' I fill the deep bins near to burstin'. Let it come freezin' o' nights though, an' thawin' right smart every midday, About the Publisher Forgotten Books p...

Excerpt from Through the Gates of the Netherlands Moveover, there is an extra seat at our table for the man, woman, or child who may need or wish to occupy it. It is our memorial to our only boy, and by means of it we have entertained many an angel unawares. Little by little during the years, we have gathered some eight hundred pleasant acquaintances about us who, although they turn their backs upon us from the bookshelves, Open out most free...

Excerpt from Flamsted Quarries A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World, " the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal. The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us o...

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