Paul Kelver, a Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500363604)

At the corner of a long, straight, brick-built street in the far East End of London-one of those lifeless streets, made of two drab walls upon which the level lines, formed by the precisely even window-sills and doorsteps, stretch in weary perspective from end to end, suggesting petrified diagrams proving dead problems-stands a house that ever draws me to it; so that often, when least conscious of my footsteps, I awake to find myself hurrying through noisy, crowded thoroughfares, where flaring naphtha lamps illumine fierce, patient, leaden-coloured faces; through dim-lit, empty streets, where monstrous shadows come and go upon the close-drawn blinds; through narrow, noisome streets, where the gutters swarm with children, and each ever-open doorway vomits riot; past reeking corners, and across waste places, till at last I reach the dreary goal of my memory-driven desire, and, coming to a halt beside the broken railings, find rest.

Author: Jerome K. Jerome
ISBN-10: 150036360X
ISBN-13: 9781500363604
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2014
Pages: 142
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.30d