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Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children

By Julian Hawthorne

2020-06-28 22:11:25

Brief Extract: AN APPANAGE OF ROYALTY. A good many years ago—before Julius Cæsar landed at Dover, in fact, and while the architect's plans for Stonehenge were still under consideration—England was inhabited by a civilised and prosperous people, ... Read more
Brief Extract: AN APPANAGE OF ROYALTY. A good many years ago—before Julius Cæsar landed at Dover, in fact, and while the architect's plans for Stonehenge were still under consideration—England was inhabited by a civilised and prosperous people, who did not care about travelling, and who were renowned for their affability to strangers. The climate was warm and equable; there were no fogs, no smoke, no railways, and no politics. The Government was an absolute monarchy; one king, who was by birth and descent an Englishman, lived in London all the year-round; and as for London, it was the cleanest, airiest, and most beautiful city in the whole world. Less

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File size286.931 KB
Print pages294
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1355646495
Julian Hawthorne was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote poetry, novels, non-fiction, a series of crime novels based on the memoirs of New York's Inspector Byrnes, and edited several collections ...

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