The Landlord at Lion's Head
Author : William Dean Howells
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 1897
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 1897
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465539425
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2018-04-18
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ISBN : 9783337502768
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490373928
If you looked at the mountain from the west, the line of the summit was wandering and uncertain, like that of most mountain-tops; but, seen from the east, the mass of granite showing above the dense forests of the lower slopes had the form of a sleeping lion. The flanks and haunches were vaguely distinguished from the mass; but the mighty head, resting with its tossed mane upon the vast paws stretched before it, was boldly sculptured against the sky. The likeness could not have been more perfect, when you had it in profile, if it had been a definite intention of art; and you could travel far north and far south before the illusion vanished. In winter the head was blotted by the snows; and sometimes the vagrant clouds caught upon it and deformed it, or hid it, at other seasons; but commonly, after the last snow went in the spring until the first snow came in the fall, the Lion's Head was a part of the landscape, as imperative and importunate as the Great Stone Face itself.
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 336833400X
Reproduction of the original.
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 1897
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1896
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ISBN :
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 1983-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486244556
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2002-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781404312425
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781499558548
In those dim recesses of the consciousness where things have their beginning, if ever things have a beginning, I suppose the origin of this novel may be traced to a fact of a fortnight's sojourn on the western shore of lake Champlain in the summer of 1891. Across the water in the State of Vermont I had constantly before my eyes a majestic mountain form which the earlier French pioneers had named "Le Lion Couchant," but which their plainer-minded Yankee successors preferred to call "The Camel's Hump." It really looked like a sleeping lion; the head was especially definite; and when, in the course of some ten years, I found the scheme for a story about a summer hotel which I had long meant to write, this image suggested the name of 'The Landlord at Lion's Head.' I gave the title to my unwritten novel at once and never wished to change it, but rejoiced in the certainty that, whatever the novel turned out to be, the title could not be better. I began to write the story four years later, when we were settled for the winter in our flat on Central Park, and as I was a year in doing it, with other things, I must have taken the unfinished manuscript to and from Magnolia, Massachusetts, and Long Beach, Long Island, where I spent the following summer. It was first serialized in Harper's Weekly and in the London Illustrated News, as well as in an Australian newspaper—I forget which one; and it was published as a completed book in 1896.