The Willows - Algernon Blackwood - Books -  - 9798577046538 - January 15, 2021
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The Willows

Book Excerpt: ...on of their vast numbers, and contriving in some way or other to represent to the imagination a new and mighty power, a power, moreover, not altogether friendly to us. Great revelations of nature, of course, never fail to impress in one way or another, and I was no stranger to moods of the kind. Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own. But all these, at one point or another, somewhere link on intimately with human life and human experience. They stir comprehensible, even if alarming, emotions. They tend on the whole to exalt. With this multitude of willows, however, it was something far different, I felt. Some essence emanated from them that besieged the heart. A sense of awe awakened, true, but of awe touched somewhere by a vague terror. Their serried ranks, growing everywhere darker about me as the shadows deepened, moving furiously yet softly in the wind, woke in me the curious and unwelcome suggestion that we had...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 15, 2021
ISBN13 9798577046538
Pages 52
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 3 mm   ·   145 g
Language English  

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