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A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... end; and then, all at once, there were several feminine voices, talking airily and cheerfully, with w and then a merry burst of laughter, such as you may always hear when three or four young women sit at work together. What a sweet song that was! exclaimed one of the voyagers. Too sweet, indeed, answered Eurylochus, shaking his head. Yet it was t so sweet as the song of the Sirens, those birdlike damsels who wanted to tempt us on the rocks, so that our vessel might be wrecked, and our bones left whitening along the shore.But just listen to the pleasant voices of those maidens, and that buzz of the loom, as the shuttle passes to and fro, said ather comrade. What a domestic, household, homelike sound it is! Ah, before that weary siege of Troy, I used to hear the buzzing loom and the women's voices under my own roof. Shall I never hear them again? r taste those nice little savory dishes which my dearest wife knew how to serve up?Tush! we shall fare better here, said ather. But how incently those women are babbling together, without guessing that we overhear them! And mark that richest voice of all, so pleasant and familiar, but which yet seems to have the authority of a mistress among them. Let us show ourselves at once. What harm can the lady of the palace and her maidens do to mariners and warriors like us?Remember, said Eurylochus, that it was a young maiden who beguiled three of our friends into the palace of the king of the Laestrygons, who ate up one of them in the twinkling of an eye. No warning or persuasion, however, had any effect on his companions. They went up to a pair of foldingdoors at the farther end of the hall, and, thro...

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CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1494475162
ISBN-13
9781494475161
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189733182

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Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
History: World & General

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Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
13/12/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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