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 49
... remember it . But the thing you can't describe and can't remember will be the whole of life to you . Sometimes you'll call it God , and sometimes you'll feel that it's nothingness and that you've given up your life to nothingness ...
... remember it . But the thing you can't describe and can't remember will be the whole of life to you . Sometimes you'll call it God , and sometimes you'll feel that it's nothingness and that you've given up your life to nothingness ...
Page 210
... remember it , it's all like an old - fashioned play , and in a play one must have the lead ! And you will go on with your own life - Chepping and a dusty , inky office in Fells Square . Or shall you be able to give up the publishing ...
... remember it , it's all like an old - fashioned play , and in a play one must have the lead ! And you will go on with your own life - Chepping and a dusty , inky office in Fells Square . Or shall you be able to give up the publishing ...
Page 218
... remember that they are addressed to me , and that he's real and not just a far - off , impossible ghost- every letter shows me that he loves me , or something he has imagined in me , more and more . It's horrible . He has suf- fered so ...
... remember that they are addressed to me , and that he's real and not just a far - off , impossible ghost- every letter shows me that he loves me , or something he has imagined in me , more and more . It's horrible . He has suf- fered so ...
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