Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 48 pages
- Published by: Echo Library August 31, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1406833452
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1406833454
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Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
- Weighs: 2.9 ounces
Book Description
Moments there are, it is true, when this traitor spirit tricks you: when some subtle scent, some broken notes of an old song, nay, even some touch of a fresher air on your cheeks at night -- a breath of ``le vent qui vient à travers la montagne'' -- have power to ravish, to catch you back to the blissful days when you trod the one authentic Paradise. Moments only, alas!
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Download Description
Among the many places of magic visited by Pantagruel and his company during the progress of their famous voyage, few surpass that island whose roads did literally ``go'' to places - ``ou les chemins cheminent, comme animaulx'': and would-be travellers, having inquired of the road as to its destination, and received satisfactory reply, ``se guindans'' (as the old book hath it - hoisting themselves up on) ``au chemin opportun, sans aultrement se poiner ou fatiguer, se trouvoyent au lieu destiné.