The Reef (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512192780)

"Unexpected obstacle. Please don't come till thirtieth. Anna." All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had hammered the words of the telegram into George Darrow's ears, ringing every change of irony on its commonplace syllables: rattling them out like a discharge of musketry, letting them, one by one, drip slowly and coldly into his brain, or shaking, tossing, transposing them like the dice in some game of the gods of malice; and now, as he emerged from his compartment at the pier, and stood facing the wind-swept platform and the angry sea beyond, they leapt out at him as if from the crest of the waves, stung and blinded him with a fresh fury of derision.

Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN-10: 1512192783
ISBN-13: 9781512192780
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2015
Pages: 154
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.33d