Excerpt from The FabulistsPicture to yourself a waste of troubled sea, grey green as ploughed stubble, and, sown all over with white bosses like scattered stones. The wind is southerly and vicious, the Sky stoops torn and low. Away there over the long Bill of Portland stretches a tiny streak, whose ashen under-shadows half Obscure, half reveal, a populous city Of battleships, as unsubstantial in seeming as lightning-charged clouds. But long ago there was one which, de taching itself from the mists, forged slowly into definite being, and now rests inert, preparing for gun practice, some three miles off the coast of Lulworth where we stand.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, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.