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Author : Henry Van Dyke
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ISBN 13 : 9780809595433
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion by Henry Van Dyke, Fiction, Classics, Literary written by Henry Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every life worth writing about there is a ruling passion, -- "the very pulse of the machine." Unless you touch that, you are groping around outside of reality. Sometimes it is romantic love: Natures masterpiece of interested benevolence. In almost all lives this passion has its season of empire. Therefore, and rightly, it is the favorite theme of the storyteller. Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know. But there are other passions, no less real, which also have their place and power in human life. Some of them come earlier, and sometimes they last longer, than romantic love. They play alongside of it and are mixed up with it, now checking it, now advancing its flow and tingeing it with their own color. Just because love is so universal, it is often to one of the other passions that we must look for the distinctive hue, the individual quality of a life-story. Granted, if you will, that everybody must fall in love, or ought to fall in love, How will he do it? And what will he do afterwards?

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732623009
Total Pages : 150 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by Henry Van Dyke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
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ISBN 13 : 9781419281303
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by Henry Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a magical performance. No one could withstand it. They all danced together, like the leaves on the shivering poplars when the wind blows through them. The gentle Serena was swept away from her stool at the organ as if she were a little canoe drawn into the rapids, and Bill Moody stepped high and cut pigeon-wings that had been forgotten for a generation.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 150 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature written by Henry Van Dyke and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature' is a delightful collection of short stories that take readers on a journey to the lives and adventures of rural French Canadians in the late 19th century. Written in a lively and engaging style, each story ends with a surprising, yet satisfying twist that keeps readers on their toes. Eight titles in total can be found within this book, including the following: 'The White Blot', 'The Keeper of the Light', 'A Brave Heart', and 'A Lover of Music'.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
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Total Pages : 295 pages
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ISBN 13 : 9781458330246
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by H. V Dyke and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ruling Passion Henry van DykeHe entered the backwoods village of Bytown literally on the wings of the wind. It whirled him along like a big snowflake, and dropped him at the door of Moody's "Sportsmen's Retreat," as if he were a New Year's gift from the North Pole. His coming seemed a mere chance but perhaps there was something more in it, after all. At all events, you shall hear, if you will, the time and the manner of his arrival. It was the last night of December, some thirty-five years ago. All the city sportsmen who had hunted the deer under Bill Moody's direction had long since retreated to their homes, leaving the little settlement on the border of the Adirondack wilderness wholly under the social direction of the natives. The annual ball was in full swing in the dining-room of the hotel. At one side of the room the tables and chairs were piled up, with their legs projecting in the air like a thicket of very dead trees. The huge stove in the southeast corner was blushing a rosy red through its thin coat of whitewash, and exhaling a furious dry heat flavoured with the smell of baked iron. At the north end, however, winter reigned and there were tiny ridges of fine snow on the floor, sifted in by the wind through the cracks in the window-frames. But the bouncing girls and the heavy-footed guides and lumbermen who filled the ball-room did not appear to mind the heat or the cold. They balanced and "sashayed" from the tropics to the arctic circle. They swung at corners and made "ladies' change" all through the temperate zone. They stamped their feet and did double-shuffles until the floor trembled beneath them. The tin lampreflectors on the walls rattled like castanets. There was only one drawback to the hilarity of the occasion. The band, which was usually imported from Sandy River Forks for such festivities, -a fiddle, a cornet, a flute, and an accordion, -had not arrived. There was a general idea that the mail-sleigh, in which the musicians were to travel, had been delayed by the storm, and might break its way through the snow-drifts and arrive at any moment. But Bill Moody, who was naturally of a pessimistic temperament, had offered a different explanation. "I tell ye, old Baker's got that blame' band down to his hotel at the Falls now, makin' 'em play fer his party. Them music fellers is onsartin can't trust 'em to keep anythin' 'cept the toon, and they don't alluz keep that.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
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Total Pages : 295 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion : Tales of Nature and Human Nature written by Henry Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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