The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530556908)

London, -and a night in June. London, swart and grim, semi-shrouded in a warm close mist of mingled human breath and acrid vapour steaming up from the clammy crowded streets, -London, with a million twinkling lights gleaming sharp upon its native blackness, and looking, to a dreamer's eye, like some gigantic Fortress, built line upon line and tower upon tower, -with huge ramparts raised about it frowningly as though in self-defence against Heaven. Around and above it the deep sky swept in a ring of sable blue, wherein thousands of stars were visible, encamped after the fashion of a mighty army, with sentinel planets taking their turns of duty in the watching of a rebellious wor

Author: Marie Corelli
ISBN-10: 1530556902
ISBN-13: 9781530556908
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2016
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.33d