Author: Julia FrankauPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Sphinx's Lawyer
Author: Julia FrankauThe Sphinx's Lawyer
Author: Julia FrankauThe Sphinx's Lawyer
Author: Frank DANBY (pseud. [i.e. Julia Frankau])Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 387
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The Sphinx's Lawyer
Author: Julia FrankauPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781346857367
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Sphinx's Lawyer
Author: Julia FrankauPublisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458905802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III That was what he thought when he lef c her that night. It was late before he came away, but the room was already full of men. The public had forgotten Sybil Heseltine, and society had forgotten her, nevertheless she did not live alone. Algernon had many disciples. As soon as it was safe, and she obscure, they rallied round his wife, who seemed all of him that was left for them. Here were the friends of his brilliant boyhood, wrecks and derelicts, bitter, and tired, and old, failures one and all. There were here, too, men from the universities, exotic, intellectual, perverse, younger men from Woolwich and Sandhurst, vicious and pallid and eager. A scheme was on foot for bringing back to his native land the ashes of the great one, the Master. His death had canonised him; already a cult for him was aflame in Prance and in Germany, and other intellectual centres. Why should England lag behind? She had murdered his body, would she throttle his fame ? So they talked, hotly; some with sincerity, conviction, some because the Sphinx willed it. On the dull horizon of their normal lives the Sphinx and her drawing-room were the golden haze. They were decadents and weaklings, essential ineifectives, but even such as these can dream Errington was used to her environment, to the tone of her house; but it jarred upon him to-night. He found the loose and brilliant talk, the note of supreme intimacy, the indecorous personal candour, the classic gossip and allusion, ugly and distasteful. The talk irked him, he was sickened with the cult to-night, as once in youth. Sybil, joining in the talk, leading it, yet watched him with that strange softness. When, from among these disciples of hers, a new prophet should arise, preaching tumult and disorder, the cult of pure intellect, a...
SPHINX'S LAWYER
Author: JULIA. FRANKAUPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033890158
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Sphinx's Lawyer (Classic Reprint)
Author: Julia FrankauPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528478953
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Excerpt from The Sphinx's Lawyer Decidedly, it is better for all parties that interests not identical should be safeguarded antagonistically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Sphinx's Lawyer
Author: Frank DanbyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781717551252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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A story which perpetuates the spirit of a dead man. a "moral lunatic" thru the wife's unceasing energy to carry on his cult. "Errlington Welch-Kennard, the lawyer. is apparently the high priest of a band of admirers who revolve. about the 'sofa-bed" of Sybil Algernon Heseitine. for the avowed purpose of keeping alive the dead man's notorious memory. At much damage to his reputation. the hero has stood by her and her husband through their worst days and now consoles the widow with a genuine friendship which the pair are content to let the world misunderstand. Sybil's revenge upon fate is to draw young men under the blighting influence of her husband's life and work, but having a real affection for the lawyer, she bestirs herself to find him a wife, judging that at forty. after an unsavory career which has exhausted his resources. nothing else can secure him safety and happiness.
The Novel Magazine
Author: Book of the Sphinx
Author: Willis Goth RegierPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803205260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.