Fare you well, my shining city (1933)

Thomas Washington-Metcalfe
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RepositoryLibraryShelf
Somerset Somerset Studies B 823 WAS
Record Number
GRN0424150
Publication Details
Date
1933
Publisher
RCN
GRN0424150
Height
19cm
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
368p
Series
The Santa Anna series - trilogy, 3rd
Note
The author lived in Bratton Fleming, Devon.
Glued to the front of this edition is a review by Basil Maine and a handwritten letter by the author in response. The letterhead is The Old Rectory, Heathfield, Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset.
First line:
There was an intense darkness over the sea. Night had fallen some hours earlier, descending upon the waters, enveloping them and the fine lines, the aspiring triple masts of the white schooner which ahad lain becalmed since the early afternoon, in an obscurity so profound that it seemed material: for the coming of the dark, all had vanished, as though beneath the folds of a sombre cloak, dropped suddenly from the heavens.
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