Name: A Select Party
SKU: 60390427
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Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
ISBN: 9781494460945

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Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

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Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x12.7x0.3 cm

Weight

0.06 kg.

ISBN13

9781494460945

Synopsis "A Select Party"

The man of fancy made an entertainment at one of his castles in the air, and invited a select number of distinguished personages to favor him with their presence. The mansion, though less splendid than many that have been situated in the same region, was nevertheless of a magnificence such as is seldom witnessed by those acquainted only with terrestrial architecture. Its strong foundations and massive walls were quarried out of a ledge of heavy and sombre clouds which had hung brooding over the earth, apparently as dense and ponderous as its own granite, throughout a whole autumnal day. Perceiving that the general effect was gloomy, -so that the airy castle looked like a feudal fortress, or a monastery of the Middle Ages, or a state prison of our own times, rather than the home of pleasure and repose which he intended it to be, -the owner, regardless of expense, resolved to gild the exterior from top to bottom. Fortunately, there was just then a flood of evening sunshine in the ai

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