Asphodel
Subtitle: A Novel. Volume 3
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: June 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781402169359
Subjects: Asphodel,novel,Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Fiction / General; Fiction / Graphic Novels
First sentence: NEARLY six months had gone since that wintry parting, when the lovers clasped hands and blessed each other under the sign of Aries; and now it was midsummer, and all the fields were green, and the limes were breaking into blossom, and the hawthornflower was dead, and the last of the blue-bells had faded, and all the white orchard-blooms, the tender loveliness of spring, belonged to the past; for the beauty of earth and nature is a thing of perpetual change, so closely allied with death that in every rapture there is the beginning of a regret.