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PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN-101330440080
ISBN-139781330440087
eBay Product ID (ePID)21038652092
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Book TitlePeter Homunculus : a Novel (Classic Reprint)
Number of Pages330 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicGeneral
IllustratorYes
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorGilbert Cannan
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
SynopsisExcerpt from Peter Homunculus: A Novel On this was written "Boy Wanted" in blue pencil scrawled by a hasty or a weary hand. An old man in an overcoat rusty with age, and for so long and so continuously worn as to cling to its owner's meagre shape, hung over the book-boxes and fingered the books, caressed those in calf with long, thin, dirty fingers, fluttered the leaves of others and occasionally with his forefinger cut the pages of a book uncut. It was a hot day, but the old man shivered and shook. Of the whole outside world he alone seemed to be alive to the existence of the little shop. Others passed it by, slouching Italians, provincials hurrying down from their hotels and boarding-houses in Bloomsbury to Piccadilly Circus, the centre of all things metropolitan; chauffeurs and mechanicians and men of the motor-car industry; little sempstresses; Jews and Jewesses with black bundles of clothes on their shoulder; loafers, touts; smart women and women unfortunate; actresses; slatternly women with babies in their arms; tourists with red Baedekers in their hands, Germans, French, Americans: boys whistling, shouting, running, hopping along on one roller skate, making hideous noises with mouth organs. Tradesmen's carts, motor cars, lorries, carriages, omnibuses rolled by. Over a roof opposite a man suspended in mid-air was mending a telephone wire. Some of the passers-by stopped to look at him, a crowd, gaping, heads craned. It swelled and filled the pathway. A pale melancholy-looking boy hurrying along, pushing his way through the throng, jostled the old man absorbed in the books and sent that in his hand flying. The old man quailed and the boy tottered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works., Excerpt from Peter Homunculus: A Novel He ew back to wild excursions into forests, early loves, love-tokens, baby kisses, thefts, burnings, plunder ings, gorgeous lies; school and the tedium of school; books and the pride of books, new worlds revealed; the first shamed consciousness of sex, awful colloquies in dark corners with other boys; hanging on to the grating of the slaughter-house with others to watch a sheep killed: the persecution of an idiot in the town whom some imp had christened Yellow Belly. He saw clearly the crowd of urchins racing down the main street of the little country town on market day, past the market hall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
