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Anna Lombard
Victoria Cross
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R844
Discovery Miles 8 440
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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To-Morrow? (Hardcover)
Victoria Cross; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R596
Discovery Miles 5 960
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REJECTED! rejected! I crushed the letter spasmodically in my hand
as I walked mechanically up and down the length of the dining-room,
a rage of anger filling my brain and the blood thundering in my
ears. "Rejected! and that not for the first time. Another year and
a half's work flung away - simply flung away, and I am no nearer
recognition than ever. Incredible it seems that they won't accept
that." I stopped under the gasalier and glanced again through the
letter I had just received. "DEAR SIR, - With reference to your
last MS., we regret to say we
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Six Women (Hardcover)
Victoria Cross; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R572
Discovery Miles 5 720
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Listless and despondent, feeling that he hated everything in life,
Hamilton walked slowly down the street. The air was heavy, and the
sun beat down furiously on the yellow cotton awnings stretched over
his head. Clouds of dust rose in the roadway as the white bullocks
shuffled along, drawing their creaking wooden carts, and swarms of
flies buzzed noisily in the yellow, dusty sunshine. Hamilton went
on aimlessly; he was hot, he was tired, his eyes and head ached, he
was thirsty; but all these disagreeable sensations were nothing
beside the intense mental nausea that filled him, a nausea of life.
It rose up in and pervaded him, uncontrollable as a physical
malady. In vain he called upon his philosophy; he had practised it
so long that it was worn out. Like an old mantle from the
shoulders, it fell from him in rags, and he was glad. He felt he
hated his philosophy only less than he hated life - hated, yet
desired as the man hates a mistress he covets, and has never yet
possessed. "Never had anything, never done anything, never felt
anything decent yet," he mused.
"Victoria Cross" was a pseudonym of Annie Sophie Cory (1868 -1952).
She also wrote popular, racy, exotic novels under the Vivian Cory
and V.C. Griffin.
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Five Nights (Hardcover)
Victoria Cross; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R603
Discovery Miles 6 030
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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It was just striking three as I came up the companion-stairs on to
the deck of the Cottage City, into the clear topaz light of a June
morning in Alaska: light that had not failed through all the night,
for in this far northern latitude the sun only just dips beneath
the horizon at midnight for an hour, leaving all the earth and sky
still bathed in limpid yellow light, gently paling at that mystic
time and glowing to its full glory again as the sun rises above the
rim. Our steamer had left the open sea and entered the Taku Inlet,
and we were steaming very slowly up it, surrounded on every side by
great glittering blocks of ice, flashing in the sunshine as they
floated by on the buoyant blue water. How blue it was, the
colouring of sea and sky Both were so vividly blue, the note of
each so deep, so intense, one seemed almost intoxicated with
colour. I stepped to the vessel's side, then made my way forward
and stood there; I, the lover of the East, dazzled by the beauty of
the North The marvellous picture before me was painted in but three
colours, blue, gold, and white.
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Anna Lombard
Victoria Cross
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R561
Discovery Miles 5 610
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Five Nights (Paperback)
Victoria Cross
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R588
R520
Discovery Miles 5 200
Save R68 (12%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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