{"product_id":"voices-in-the-night-flora-annie-steel-9781519115010","title":"Voices in the Night","description":"Excerpt from Voices in the Night: A Chromatic Fantasia \u003cbr\u003eThe new year was already some hours old, but the world to which it had come was still dark. Dark with a curious obscurity that was absolutely opaque yet faintly luminous because of the white fog which lay on all things and hid them from the stars; for the sky above was clear, cold, almost frosty. \u003cbr\u003eThat was why the fog, born, not of cool vapour seeking for cloud life among the winds of heaven, but of hot smoke loving the warmth of dust and ashes, clung so closely to the earth - to its birthplace. \u003cbr\u003eIt was an acrid, bitter smoke, not even due to the dead hearth-fires of a dead day, since they - like all else pertaining to the domestic life of India - give small outward sign of existence, but to the smouldering piles of litter and refuse which are lit every evening upon the outskirts of human habitation. Dull heaps with a minimum of fire, a maximum of smoke, where the humanity which has produced the litter, the refuse, gathers for gossip or for warmth. \u003cbr\u003eEven in the fields beyond the multitude of men, where some long-limbed peasant, watching his hope of harvest, dozes by a solitary fire, this same smoke rises in a solid column until, beaten down by the colder moister air above, it drifts sideways to spread like a vast cobweb over the dew-set carpet of green corn. \u003cbr\u003eSo it was small wonder if here, at Nushapore, with its fifty thousand and odd dwellers in cantonments, its two hundred and odd thousand dwellers in the town, the smoke fog hid earth from heaven; hid even the steady coming of day. \u003cbr\u003eFor it was close on dawn. \u003cbr\u003eAbout the Publisher \u003cbr\u003eForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com \u003cbr\u003eThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Flora Annie Steel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1519115016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781519115010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.65d","brand":"Flora Annie Steel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49000397570303,"sku":"9781519115010","price":12.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/voices-in-the-night-flora-annie-steel-9781519115010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}