Pictures from Italy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781484178850)

Excerpt: ... began to wind among dark trees, and after a time emerged upon a barer region, very steep and toilsome, where the moon shone bright and high. By degrees, the roar of water grew louder; and the stupendous track, after crossing the torrent by a bridge, struck in between two massive perpendicular walls of rock that quite shut out the moonlight, and only left a few stars shining in the narrow strip of sky above. Then, even this was lost, in the thick darkness of a cavern in the rock, through which the way was pierced; the terrible cataract thundering and roaring close below it, and its foam and spray hanging, in a mist, about the entrance. Emerging from this cave, and coming again into the moonlight, and across a dizzy bridge, it crept and twisted upward, through the Gorge of Gondo, savage and grand beyond description, with smooth-fronted precipices, rising up on either hand, and almost meeting overhead. Thus we went, climbing on our rugged way, higher and higher all night, without a moment

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1484178858
ISBN-13: 9781484178850
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/22/2013
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.40d