The Caged Lion
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Published: June 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781421844312
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; General; Literary Collections / General; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: A master hand has so often described the glens and ravines of Scotland, that it seems vain and presumptuous to meddle with them; and yet we must ask our readers to figure to themselves a sharp cleft sloping downwards to a brawling mountain stream, the sides scattered with gray rocks of every imaginable size, interspersed here and there with heather, gorse, or furze.