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 75
... window that opened upon Kerstholt's garden and was holding a volume towards the light . He was lost in it and happily lost , for its subject was so much in harmony with his own mood that the writer , leaving the seventeenth century ...
... window that opened upon Kerstholt's garden and was holding a volume towards the light . He was lost in it and happily lost , for its subject was so much in harmony with his own mood that the writer , leaving the seventeenth century ...
Page 78
... window - light , and telling himself it was not for a personal reason , but for the merit of the tale , that there seemed to him to be no story equal in magic with the story of Nausicaa . When he looked up from the Odyssey , he saw ...
... window - light , and telling himself it was not for a personal reason , but for the merit of the tale , that there seemed to him to be no story equal in magic with the story of Nausicaa . When he looked up from the Odyssey , he saw ...
Page 206
... window - sill , where it was soon hidden in the mass of stuff that accumulates in these little lodgings of mine . Now and then I have a grand clearance . I began one to - night and found Descartes . That was the end of my housemaiding ...
... window - sill , where it was soon hidden in the mass of stuff that accumulates in these little lodgings of mine . Now and then I have a grand clearance . I began one to - night and found Descartes . That was the end of my housemaiding ...
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