Alarms And Discursions
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781417909520
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literature: Classics; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Essays
First sentence: IN the frosty grey of winter twilight there comes a crackle and spurt of bluish fire; it is waved for an instant in a sort of weak excitement, and then fizzles out into darkness: and by the blue flash I can just see some little boys lurching by with a limp bolster and a loose flapping mask.