The Coming Race - Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Livres - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781545042861 - 3 avril 2017
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The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Coming Race

I am a native of ____, in the United States of America. My ancestors migrated from England in the reign of Charles II.; and my grandfather was not undistinguished in the War of Independence. My family, therefore, enjoyed a somewhat high social position in right of birth; and being also opulent, they were considered disqualified for the public service. My father once ran for Congress, but was signally defeated by his tailor. After that event he interfered little in politics, and lived much in his library. I was the eldest of three sons, and sent at the age of sixteen to the old country, partly to complete my literary education, partly to commence my commercial training in a mercantile firm at Liverpool. My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth. In the year 18, happening to be in __, I was invited by a professional engineer, with whom I had made acquaintance, to visit the recesses of the ______ mine, upon which he was employed. The reader will understand, ere he close this narrative, my reason for concealing all clue to the district of which I write, and will perhaps thank me for refraining from any description that may tend to its discovery.

Médias Livres     Paperback Book   (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé 3 avril 2017
ISBN13 9781545042861
Éditeurs Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 138
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 8 mm   ·   195 g
Langue et grammaire English  

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