The Chimes - Charles Dickens - Books - 1st World Library - Literary Society - 9781421897301 - December 30, 2007
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The Chimes

Charles Dickens

The Chimes

Fortunate is the hero who links his name romantically with that of a woman. A tender interest in his fame is assured. Still more fortunate is he if he is able to record his own achievements and give to them that form and color and importance which they assume in his own gallant conscious-ness. Captain John Smith, the first of an honored name, had this double good fortune. We are indebted to him for the glowing picture of a knight-errant of the sixteenth century, moving with the port of a swash-buckler across the field of vision, wherever cities were to be taken and heads cracked in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and, in the language of one of his laureates-

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 30, 2007
ISBN13 9781421897301
Publishers 1st World Library - Literary Society
Pages 120
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 11 mm   ·   290 g
Language English  
Contributor 1stworld Library

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