The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy (1865–1947), 1905
Ατμόσφαιρα: γαλήνη. Μιλά για την κοινωνία, την ηθική και την ελευθερία.
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All else was quiet round her. She had heard the horses prancing as they were being led away to their distant stables, the hurrying of servants’ feet as they had all gone within to rest: the house also was quite still. In two separate suites of apartments, just above the magnificent reception-rooms, lights were still burning, they were her rooms, and his, well divided from each other by the whole width of the house, as far apart as their own lives had become. Involuntarily she sighed—at that moment she could really not have told why. This was his first visit to England since her marriage, and the few months of separation had already seemed to have built up a slight, thin partition between brother and sister; the same deep, intense love was still there, on both sides, but each now seemed to have a secret orchard, into which the other dared not penetrate. It was long past midnight when at last Marguerite retired to rest. As she had feared, sleep sedulously avoided her eyes. Her thoughts were of the blackest during these long, weary hours, whilst that incessant storm raged which was keeping her away from Percy. The sound of the distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. Βιβλία με παρόμοια αίσθηση
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The Elusive Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy, 1908
Ο Scarlet Pimpernel επιστρέφει στη Γαλλία της Επανάστασης, κι ο κατάσκοπος που ταπείνωσε τον περιμένει με μια συμφωνία, μια κλειδωμένη φυλακή και μια καλοστημένη παγίδα.
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- Αν σου άρεσε το «The Scarlet Pimpernel», δοκίμασε «The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» (Mark Twain), «Ο Κόμης Μοντεχρίστος» (Alexandre Dumas) και «The Law of the Four Just Men» (Edgar Wallace).
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What silence feels like when it isn't loneliness.
This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour. We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed—only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all—that night, nor the next, nor the next.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Mark Twain
Το σώμα έχει σιωπήσει, μα ένα φως στέλνει ακόμη μήνυμα από μέσα.
Sight and hearing were the only senses remaining, and they, like two solitary sparks, remained to animate the miserable body which seemed fit for nothing but the grave; it was only, however, by means of one of these senses that he could reveal the thoughts and feelings that still occupied his mind, and the look by which he gave expression to his inner life was like the distant gleam of a candle which a traveller sees by night across some desert place, and knows that a living being dwells beyond the silence and obscurity.
Ο Κόμης Μοντεχρίστος · Alexandre Dumas
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