George Cary Eggleston: 33 books
by George Cary Eggleston
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Mr. Howells once said to me: "Every man's life is interesting—to himself." I suppose that is true, though in the cases of some men it seems a difficult thing to understand. At any rate it is not because of personal interest in my own life that I am writing this book. I was perfectly sincere in wanting...
by George Cary Eggleston
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.—Mr. Pagebrook gets up and Calls an Ancient Lawgiver
Chapter II.—Mr. Pagebrook is Invited to Breakfast
Chapter III.—Mr. Pagebrook Eats his Breakfast
Chapter IV.—Mr. Pagebrook Learns something about the Customs of the Country
Chapter V.—Mr. Pagebrook Makes Some Acquaintances
Chapter...
by George Cary Eggleston
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
“Give it up, boys; you’re tired, and you’ve been in the water too long already. And, besides, I’ve decided that this job’s done.” It was Ed Lowry who spoke. He was lying on the sand under a big sycamore tree that had slid, roots and all, off the river bank above, and now stood leaning...
by George Cary Eggleston
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
It was a very beautiful and enjoyable life that the Virginians led in that ancient time, for it certainly seems ages ago, before the war came to turn ideas upside down and convert the picturesque commonwealth into a commonplace, modern state. It was a soft, dreamy, deliciously quiet life, a life of...