A Son Of The Gods: (Ambrose Bierce Classics Collection) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508602552)

A breezy day and a sunny landscape. An open country to right and left and forward; behind, a wood. In the edge of this wood, facing the open but not venturing into it, long lines of troops halted. The wood is alive with them, and full of confused noises: the occasional rattle of wheels as a battery of artillery goes into position to cover the advance; the hum and murmur of the soldiers talking; a sound of innumerable feet in the dry leaves that strew the interspaces among the trees; hoarse commands of officers. Detached groups of horsemen are well in front-not altogether exposed-many of them intently regarding the crest of a hill a mile away in the direction of the interrupted advance. For this powerful army, moving in battle order through a forest, has met with a formidable obstacle-the open country. The crest of that gentle hill a mile away has a sinister look; it says, Beware Along it runs a stone wall extending to left and right a great distance. Behind the wall is a hedge; behind the hedge are seen the tops of trees in rather straggling order. Among the trees-what? It is necessary to know.

Author: Ambrose Bierce
ISBN-10: 1508602557
ISBN-13: 9781508602552
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2015
Pages: 26
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.11lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.05d