This volume is from 1910.
Excerpt from the book:
The grey twilight gives to the long, pale stretches of
sand the sense of something strangely unreal. As far
as the eye can reach, it curves out into the mist, the last
vanishing garments, as it were, of some fleeing ghost. The
sea comes, smoothly, quite silently, over the breast of it;
there is a trembling whisper as it catches the highest stretch
of sand and drags it for a moment down the slope, then, with
a little sigh, creeps back again a defeated lover.
The sky is grey, with an orange light hovering on its outer
edges, the last signal of the setting sun. A very faint mist
is creeping gradually over the sea, so faint that the silver
circle of the rising moon shines quite clearly through the
shadows ; but it changes the pale yellow of the ghostly sand
into a dark grey land without form and void, seeming for a
moment to be one with sea and sky, and then rising again,
out of obscurity, into definite substance.
There is silence here in the creek, save for the rustling
and whisper of the sea, but round the bend of the rocks the
noises of the town come full upon the ear.
The town is built up from the sand on the side of the hill,
and rises, tier upon tier, until it finds its pinnacle in the
church tower and the roofs of the " Man at Arms."
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About the author:
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. A best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, his works have been neglected since his death.
....summary from wikipedia
British novelist, critic, and dramatist, a natural storyteller with a fine flow of words and romantic invention.
.....from britannica.com
Be sure to look for more of Sir Walpole's novels for your Kindle:
- The Green Mirror
- The Gods and Mr. Perrin, a tragi-comedy
- The Thirteen Travelers
- The Young Enchanted
- The Duchess of Wrexe
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