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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... past ; would see them , it might be , when he was unable to imagine his mother's face , so long would she then have been in her grave . Now , with the crumple of her letter in his fist , he imagined her at her little table in the ...
... past ; would see them , it might be , when he was unable to imagine his mother's face , so long would she then have been in her grave . Now , with the crumple of her letter in his fist , he imagined her at her little table in the ...
Page 132
... past ; and , in the midst , would be that complex struggle of con- science which gave its character to seventeenth - century Eng- land . There were men living to - day who had seen greater and swifter changes , but it was not the extent ...
... past ; and , in the midst , would be that complex struggle of con- science which gave its character to seventeenth - century Eng- land . There were men living to - day who had seen greater and swifter changes , but it was not the extent ...
Page 387
... past . Still he asked for news , and the spread of revolt , first to Hamburg , Lübeck and Bremen , then to Leipzig ... past that he was leaving or of the future , into which , out of the darkness of this womb , he was to be born ; in her ...
... past . Still he asked for news , and the spread of revolt , first to Hamburg , Lübeck and Bremen , then to Leipzig ... past that he was leaving or of the future , into which , out of the darkness of this womb , he was to be born ; in her ...
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