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Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy

By George Manville Fenn

2019-11-19 06:29:00

Brief Extract: Father and son were as much alike as a sturdy sun-browned man of forty can resemble a thin, pale youth of sixteen or so. In other words, they possessed the same features, but the elder suggested an outdoor plant, sturdy and well-grown, ... Read more
Brief Extract: Father and son were as much alike as a sturdy sun-browned man of forty can resemble a thin, pale youth of sixteen or so. In other words, they possessed the same features, but the elder suggested an outdoor plant, sturdy and well-grown, the younger a sickly exotic, raised in the hot steaming air of the building which gardeners call a stove, a place in which air is only admitted to pass over hot-water pipes, for fear the plants within should shiver and begin to droop. Less

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File size533.899 KB
Print pages408
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1374980471
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George Manville Fenn
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George Manville Fenn was a prolific English novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist. Many of his novels were written for young adults. His final book was a biography of his fellow writer for j...

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