Название: An Ocean Tramp
Автор: William McFee
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066222994
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William McFee
An Ocean Tramp
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066222994
Table of Contents
TO
A—— R——
“She was lovable, and he loved her. But he
was not lovable, and she did not love him.”
—Heine’s Reisebilder
PREFACE TO THE 1921 EDITION
In the original preface to the First Edition, it will be seen that by a perfectly justifiable stroke of artistic manipulation, the writer of the letters, the Ocean Tramp himself, is drowned at sea. Neither author nor publisher had offered any guarantee that the book was a record of cold facts, and it was not deemed necessary at that time to disillusion any of the public who saw fit to send in condolences upon the tragic end of a promising career. Nevertheless, the book was faithful enough in a larger sense, for the young man who wrote it had undoubtedly died and buried himself in its pages. His place, it appeared presently, was taken by a cynical person who voyaged all over the seven seas in various steamers, accumulating immense stocks of local colour, passing through the divers experiences which befall sailor-men, reading a good many books, and gradually assuming the rôle of an amused spectator. Of this person, however, there is no need to speak just now, and we must go back to the time when the author, in that condition СКАЧАТЬ