CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

Eugene Aram : (Edward Bulwer Lytton Masterpiece Collection) by Edward Bulwer Lytton (2014, Trade Paperback)

About this product

Product Information

In the country of-there is a sequestered hamlet, which I have often sought occasion to pass, and which I have never left without a certain reluctance and regret. It is not only (though this has a remarkable spell over my imagination) that it is the sanctuary, as it were, of a story which appears to me of a singular and fearful interest; but the scene itself is one which requires no legend to arrest the traveller's attention. I know not in any part of the world, which it has been my lot to visit, a landscape so entirely lovely and picturesque, as that which on every side of the village I speak of, you may survey. The hamlet to which I shall here give the name of Grassdale, is situated in a valley, which for about the length of a mile winds among gardens and orchards, laden with fruit, between two chains of gentle and fertile hills. Here, singly or in pairs, are scattered cottages, which bespeak a comfort and a rural luxury, less often than our poets have described the characteristics of the English peasantry. It has been observed, and there is a world of homely, ay, and of legislative knowledge in the observation, that wherever you see a flower in a cottage garden, or a bird-cage at the window, you may feel sure that the cottagers are better and wiser than their neighbours; and such humble tokens of attention to something beyond the sterile labour of life, were (we must now revert to the past, ) to be remarked in almost every one of the lowly abodes at Grassdale. The jasmine here, there the vine clustered over the threshold, not so wildly as to testify negligence; but rather to sweeten the air than to exclude it from the inmates. Each of the cottages possessed at its rear its plot of ground, apportioned to the more useful and nutritious product of nature; while the greater part of them fenced also from the unfrequented road a little spot for the lupin, the sweet pea, or the many tribes of the English rose. And it is not unworthy of remark, that the bees came in greater clusters to Grassdale than to any other part of that rich and cultivated district. A small piece of waste land, which was intersected by a brook, fringed with ozier and dwarf and fantastic pollards, afforded pasture for a few cows, and the only carrier's solitary horse. The stream itself was of no ignoble repute among the gentle craft of the Angle, the brotherhood whom our associations defend in the spite of our mercy; and this repute drew welcome and periodical itinerants to the village, who furnished it with its scanty news of the great world without, and maintained in a decorous custom the little and single hostelry of the place. Not that Peter Dealtry, the proprietor of the "Spotted Dog," was altogether contented to subsist upon the gains of his hospitable profession; he joined thereto the light cares of a small farm, held under a wealthy and an easy landlord; and being moreover honoured with the dignity of clerk to the parish, he was deemed by his neighbours a person of no small accomplishment, and no insignificant distinction. He was a little, dry, thin man, of a turn rather sentimental than jocose; a memory well stored with fag-ends of psalms, and hymns which, being less familiar than the psalms to the ears of the villagers, were more than suspected to be his own composition; often gave a poetic and semi-religious colouring to his conversation, which accorded rather with his dignity in the church, than his post at the Spotted Dog. Yet he disliked not his joke, though it was subtle and delicate of nature; nor did he disdain to bear companionship over his own liquor, with guests less gifted and refined.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1495923266
ISBN-13
9781495923265
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202585866

Product Key Features

Book Title
Eugene Aram : (Edward Bulwer Lytton Masterpiece Collection)
Author
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
238 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
11in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
8.5in
Item Weight
24.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Target Audience
Trade

Best Selling in Books

See all

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Books

The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies by Claude Davis (2018, Paperback)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 384 product ratings
$47.00 New
$39.99 Used
Outlive Gifford Bil (2023,Paperback)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 8 product ratings
$11.90 New
$8.99 Used
The Women : A Novel by Kristin Hannah (2024, Hardcover)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 9 product ratings
$17.00 New
$7.99 Used
Ugly's Electrical References, 2023 Edition by Charles R. Miller (2023, Spiral)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 15 product ratings
$11.19 New
$9.95 Used
For Love of Country : Leave the Democrat Party Behind by Tulsi Gabbard (2024, Hardcover)
No ratings or reviews yet
$26.75 New
$10.99 Used
The Empyrean Ser.: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (2023, Hardcover)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 3 product ratings
$14.99 New
$10.75 Used
A Marketplace Book Ser.: The Candlestick Course by Steve Nison (2003, Trade Paperback)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 6 product ratings
$9.97 New
---- Used

Save on Books

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Books

For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind HARDCOVER 2024 by Tulsi ...
$25.00
Trending at $30.16
A Marketplace Book Ser.: The Candlestick Course by Steve Nison USA STOCK
$12.79
Trending at $14.00
🔥🔥 Tom Selleck You Never Know: A Memoir Signed Autographed Hardcover Book NEW
$54.99
Trending at $69.98
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (First Edition 2023)
$29.99
Trending at $49.99
Harry Potter Series Books 2-7 Scholastic Paperback Box Set
$30.00
Trending at $36.49
MIFEPRISTONE: Ultimate Guide To Using Mifepristone A Safe & Effective Option For
$10.99
Trending at $12.92

Shop by category

Eugene Aram : (Edward Bulwer Lytton Masterpiece Collection) by Edward Bulwer Lytton (2014, Trade Paperback)

About this product

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Dimensions

Additional Product Features

Best Selling in Books

The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies by Claude Davis (2018, Paperback)

Outlive Gifford Bil (2023,Paperback)

The Women : A Novel by Kristin Hannah (2024, Hardcover)

Ugly's Electrical References, 2023 Edition by Charles R. Miller (2023, Spiral)

For Love of Country : Leave the Democrat Party Behind by Tulsi Gabbard (2024, Hardcover)

The Empyrean Ser.: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (2023, Hardcover)

A Marketplace Book Ser.: The Candlestick Course by Steve Nison (2003, Trade Paperback)

Save on Books

For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind HARDCOVER 2024 by Tulsi ...

A Marketplace Book Ser.: The Candlestick Course by Steve Nison USA STOCK

🔥🔥 Tom Selleck You Never Know: A Memoir Signed Autographed Hardcover Book NEW

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (First Edition 2023)

Harry Potter Series Books 2-7 Scholastic Paperback Box Set

MIFEPRISTONE: Ultimate Guide To Using Mifepristone A Safe & Effective Option For

You may also like

Fiction Paperback Fiction & Cassie Edwards Books

Eugene O'Neill Nonfiction Collectibles Paperbacks Books

Eugene O'Neill Paperbacks Books

Eugene O'Neill Paperbacks Books

Eugene O'Neill Study Paperbacks Prep

Fiction Books & Cassie Edwards Fiction