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The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 960
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The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin (Paperback)
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Loot Price R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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Some people bring home a bundle of sketches from their summer
holiday-water-colour memories of cliff, of sea, ruined castle, and
ancient abbey. I brought back from the Channel Islands these pages
here printed, as a kind of bundle of sketches in black and white,
put together day by day as a holiday-task, and forming a string, as
it were, on which the memories of ramble after ramble were
threaded, rambles from end to end of Guernsey, and rambles, too,
among the treasures of the Guille-Alles Library. I enjoyed my
holiday all the better, as I peopled the cliffs and glens with the
shadows of eight hundred years ago, and I hope that others may find
some reality and some pleasure in the result as it is given here.
If any inquire into the real historical foundations for the story,
I refer them to the few notes at the end of the book, which will
reveal without much doubt where fiction begins and fact ends. I
hope I may be allowed a little license in the treatment of facts.
There is-is there not?-a logic of fiction, as well as a logic of
facts. At least there seemed to be as I wrote the story, and I hope
no one who reads it will be inclined to quarrel with any part of it
because its only basis is-imagination.
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