The Smile Of The Sphinx Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Smile of the Sphinx 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.

Excerpt from Fantastica: Being the Smile of the Sphinx and Other Tales of Imagination Two of these tales have appeared in serial The Smile of the Sphinx, in the first number of the London Mercury, and Sir Perseus and the Fair Andromeda, in the English Review. Both tales have been slightly revised. Golgotha which, since the writing of the Preface, has grown to be the most ambitious of these tales, appears in print for the first time. I should like to remark that a volume of amusing and well-written stories entitled The Pilgrim of the Smile, in which sundry characters go in search of the secret of the smile of the Sphinx, appeared about a year after the publication in the London Mercury referred to above. I lay no charge of plagiarism to the Witty Norman Davey, though the coincidence appears unusually striking. I merely wish to clear myself of any such charge. 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.

Excerpt from Cupid and the Sphinx N Mr. Story's studio at Rome, last year, I saw a cast for a beautiful group of Cupid and the Sphinx, which suggested the title of my story. The Sphinx has arms, according to the artist, and one of them is thrown gracefully across her body, while her head and shoulders are half turned back wards, with the beginning of a smile upon her lips, as though surprised into amusement at the unparalleled audacity of Cupid, who has alighted upon her back, and is in the act of proposing a problem to her with an unconsciousness which is quite bewitching. 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.

Excerpt from Facing the Sphinx If we contribute our mite towards the revival of the ancient mode of thought, which can be found partly in the Bible, if understood, and partly in the sacred and profane literature of Egypt, India, Per sia, Chaldea, Central America, China, Greece, Rome, etc. We will be amply rewarded. For to dispel the clouds of ignorance which are still hanging over the human intellect, is to conquer and uproo't wickedness. Let us eat of the fruit of the tree of Paradise, so that, by acquiring the knowledge Of good and evil, we may always be wise enough to choose good and eschew evil. 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.

Excerpt from The Sphinx's Children and Other People's Once to all things comes their hour. The black column of basalt quivers to its heart with one keen lightning thrill that vindicates its kin to the electric flash without; the granite clifl' loses one atom from its bald front, and every other atom quails before the dumb shiver of gravitation and shifts its place; the breathing, breathless marble, which a sculptor has rescued from its primeval sleep, and, repeating after God, though with stammering and insufficient lips, the great drama of Paradise, makes a man out of dust, once, once, in the deadness of its beauty, that marble thrills with magnetic life, drinks its maker's soul, re peats the Paradisiac amen, and owns that it is good. Yea, greater miracle of transcendental truth, once. 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.

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This book contains all the novels of Jack London in the chronological order of their original publication The Son of the Wolf The God of his Fathers & Other Stories A Daughter of the Snows The Call of the Wild The Sea Wolf The Faith of Men & Other Stories The Game Tales of the Fish Patrol Moon-Face & Other Stories White Fang Before Adam Love of Life & Other Stories The Road The Iron Heel Martin Eden Burning Daylight Lost Face Adventure The Abysmal Brute South Sea Tales When God Laughs & Other Stories The Scarlet Plague The House of Pride A Son of the Sun The Valley of the Moon The Night-Born The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Strength of the Strong The Star Rover The Little Lady of the Big House The Turtles of Tasman Jerry of the Islands Michael, Brother of Jerry Hearts of Three The Red One On the Makaloa Mat Children of the Frost Dutch Courage and Other Stories