Author : Charles Egbert Craddock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330709030
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Despot of Broomsedge Cove (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Egbert Craddock
Download or read book The Despot of Broomsedge Cove (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Egbert Craddock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Despot of Broomsedge Cove On a certain steep and savage slope of the Great Smoky Mountains, the primeval wilderness for many miles is unbroken save by one meagre clearing. The presence of humanity upon the earth is further attested only by a log cabin, high on the rugged slant. At night the stars seem hardly more aloof than the valley below. By day the mountains assert their solemn vicinage, an austere company. The clouds that silently commune with the great peaks, the sinister and scathing deeds of the lightnings, the passionate rhetoric of the thunders, the triumphal pageantry of the sunset-tides, and the wistful yearnings of the dawn aspiring to the day, - these might seem the only incidents of this lonely and exalted life. So august is this mountain scheme that it fills all the visible world with its massive multitudinous presence; still stretching out into the dim blue distances an infinite perspective of peak and range and lateral spur, till one may hardly believe that the fancy does not juggle with the fact. One day a sound impinged suddenly upon its impressive silence, - faint and far, but even in the echo charged with alien suggestions; not akin to the woods or the waters, to the cry of beast or of bird; subtly at variance with the mountain solitude, imposed upon it, neither of its essence nor its outgrowth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.