Length4h 45m
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Excerpt: "From Bocca di Magra to Bocca d'Arno, mile after mile, the sandy beaches smoothly, unbrokenly extend. Inland from the beach, behind a sheltering belt of pines, lies a strip of coastal plain—flat as a slice of Holland and dyked with slow streams. Corn grows here and the vine, with plantations of slim poplars interspersed, and fat water-meadows. Here and there the streams brim over into shallow lakes, whose shores are fringed with sodden fields of rice. And behind this strip of plain, four or five miles from the sea, the mountains rise, suddenly and steeply: the Apuan Alps. Their highest crests are of bare limestone, streaked here and there with the white marble which brings prosperity to the little towns that stand at their feet: Massa and Carrara, Serravezza, Pietrasanta. Half the world's tombstones are scooped out of these noble crags. Their lower slopes are grey with olive trees, green 10with woods of chestnut. Over their summits repose the enormous sculptured masses of the clouds."
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length4 hrs 45 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 14, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I: CENTENARIES
15XV: TIBET
2II: ON RE-READING CANDIDE
16XVI: BEAUTY IN 1920
3III: ACCIDIE
17XVII: GREAT THOUGHTS
4IV: SUBJECT-MATTER OF POETRY
18XVIII: ADVERTISEMENT
5V: WATER MUSIC
19XIX: EUPHUES REDIVIVUS
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6VI: PLEASURES
20XX: THE AUTHOR OF EMINENT VICTORIANS
7VII: MODERN FOLK POETRY
21XXI: EDWARD THOMAS
8VIII: BIBLIOPHILY
22XXII: A WORDSWORTH ANTHOLOGY
9IX: DEMOCRATIC ART
23XXIII: VERHAEREN
10X: ACCUMULATIONS
24XXIV: EDWARD LEAR
11XI: ON DEVIATING INTO SENSE
25XXV: SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
12XII: POLITE CONVERSATION
26XXVI: BEN JONSON
13XIII: NATIONALITY IN LOVE
27XXVII: CHAUCER
14XIV: HOW THE DAYS DRAW IN!
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