Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427067171
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Erema ; Or, My Father's Sin
Author: Richard Doddridge BlackmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Erema - My Father's Sin
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427067171
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Erema: My Father's Sin
Author: Sir Richard Doddridge BlackmorePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465601627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. These are the words that have followed me always. This is the curse which has fallen on my life. If I had not known my father, if I had not loved him, if I had not closed his eyes in desert silence deeper than the silence of the grave, even if I could have buried and bewailed him duly, the common business of this world and the universal carelessness might have led me down the general track that leads to nothing. Until my father fell and died I never dreamed that he could die. I knew that his mind was quite made up to see me safe in my new home, and then himself to start again for still remoter solitudes. And when his mind was thus made up, who had ever known him fail of it? If ever a resolute man there was, that very man was my father. And he showed it now, in this the last and fatal act of his fatal life. "Captain, here I leave you all," he shouted to the leader of our wagon train, at a place where a dark, narrow gorge departed from the moilsome mountain track. "My reasons are my own; let no man trouble himself about them. All my baggage I leave with you. I have paid my share of the venture, and shall claim it at Sacramento. My little girl and I will take this short-cut through the mountains." "General!" answered the leader of our train, standing up on his board in amazement. "Forgive and forget, Sir; forgive and forget. What is a hot word spoken hotly? If not for your own sake, at least come back for the sake of your young daughter." "A fair haven to you!" replied my father. He offered me his hand, and we were out of sight of all that wearisome, drearisome, uncompanionable company with whom, for eight long weeks at least, we had been dragging our rough way. I had known in a moment that it must be so, for my father never argued. Argument, to his mind, was a very nice amusement for the weak. My spirits rose as he swung his bear-skin bag upon his shoulder, and the last sound of the laboring caravan groaned in the distance, and the fresh air and the freedom of the mountains moved around us. It was the 29th of May—Oak-apple Day in England—and to my silly youth this vast extent of snowy mountains was a nice place for a cool excursion. Moreover, from day to day I had been in most wretched anxiety, so long as we remained with people who could not allow for us. My father, by his calm reserve and dignity and largeness, had always, among European people, kept himself secluded; but now in this rough life, so pent in trackless tracts, and pressed together by perpetual peril, every body's manners had been growing free and easy. Every man had been compelled to tell, as truly as he could, the story of his life thus far, to amuse his fellow-creatures—every man, I mean, of course, except my own poor father. Some told their stories every evening, until we were quite tired—although they were never the same twice over; but my father could never be coaxed to say a syllable more than, "I was born, and I shall die."
Erema – My Father's Sin (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427068526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Erema – My Father's Sin (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427068550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Erema – My Father's Sin (Volume 1 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author: Richard Doddridge BlackmorePublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427066639
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Erema – My Father's Sin (Volume 2 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427067163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
Author: R. D. BlackmorePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
"Erema; Or, My Father's Sin" is a three-volume novel that features the story of a teenage girl named Erema. Erema's father ran away from England, having been accused of a murder he did not commit. The teenage girl went through childhood in exile with her father, and now as a teenager, the story begins in California in the 1850s.
Erema, Or, My Father's Sin
Author: Richard Doddridge BlackmorePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338556025X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Erema
Author: R. D. BlackmorePublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775454908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Although R.D. Blackmore is most strongly associated with romantic fiction set in the bucolic English countryside, this novel deviates significantly from his typical formula. Set in the harsh desert environment of the Western U.S. in the mid-1800s, Erema follows the travails of a young British girl and her father who get lost while looking for an old family friend. Will Erema survive to clear up the suspicious circumstances besmirching her father's good name?