The FountainThe text is a novel set in Holland during the first World War. The main characters are a British officer, a Dutch aristocrat and his British stepdaughter who is married to a German officer. It was a winner of the 1932 Hawthornden Prize. |
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Page 68
... cottage belonging to a man called Kerstholt that has a garden , and if we took rooms there " The canals were clipped in winter and the barbed wire was furry with snow before it became certain that , in the third week of February , they ...
... cottage belonging to a man called Kerstholt that has a garden , and if we took rooms there " The canals were clipped in winter and the barbed wire was furry with snow before it became certain that , in the third week of February , they ...
Page 69
... cottage before you come . Can you put in your time until then ? " " I'll go and dig in libraries at Leiden and Amsterdam and the Hague , and collect more books . " " Good , " said Ballater . " I'm going to buy a car . Do you know ...
... cottage before you come . Can you put in your time until then ? " " I'll go and dig in libraries at Leiden and Amsterdam and the Hague , and collect more books . " " Good , " said Ballater . " I'm going to buy a car . Do you know ...
Page 291
... cottage were still full of their possessions . Among these Lewis had been searching for a pipe that Ramsdell wished to have sent to Haarlem , and , though the pipe was soon found , he had stayed long in the cottage , talking to Vrouw ...
... cottage were still full of their possessions . Among these Lewis had been searching for a pipe that Ramsdell wished to have sent to Haarlem , and , though the pipe was soon found , he had stayed long in the cottage , talking to Vrouw ...
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