Brother Jacob (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781494767471)

Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the tedium of life can reach a pitch where plum-buns at discretion cease to offer the slightest excitement? Or how, at the tender age when a confectioner seems to him a very prince whom all the world must envy-who breakfasts on macaroons, dines on meringues, sups on twelfth-cake, and fills up the intermediate hours with sugar-candy or peppermint-how is he to foresee the day of sad wisdom, when he will discern that the confectioner's calling is not socially influential, or favourable to a soaring ambition?

Author: George Eliot
ISBN-10: 1494767473
ISBN-13: 9781494767471
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/21/2013
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.17d