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 11
... ramparts were visible the tops of trees growing within on a lower level . On each of the great earthen bastions at the corners of the square was a wood of tall elms . A canal , wider than any common moat , lay about the base of the ramparts ...
... ramparts were visible the tops of trees growing within on a lower level . On each of the great earthen bastions at the corners of the square was a wood of tall elms . A canal , wider than any common moat , lay about the base of the ramparts ...
Page 13
... ramparts before others came and to walk among the great elms on the bastions . But there was a gate , heightened with barbed wire and padlocked , across the path leading from the courtyard on to the main ramparts , and a Dutch ...
... ramparts before others came and to walk among the great elms on the bastions . But there was a gate , heightened with barbed wire and padlocked , across the path leading from the courtyard on to the main ramparts , and a Dutch ...
Page 41
... ramparts , awakening in the ramparts themselves a harsh green sliced by metallic shadows , blotted out the sky and enclosed all life within the compass of a stage whereon these figures went to and fro continually in a wheeling pattern ...
... ramparts , awakening in the ramparts themselves a harsh green sliced by metallic shadows , blotted out the sky and enclosed all life within the compass of a stage whereon these figures went to and fro continually in a wheeling pattern ...
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