The Stillwater Tragedy - Softcover

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421804956 ISBN 13: 9781421804958

Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2005

Synopsis

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is close upon daybreak. The great wall of pines and hemlocks that keep off the west wind from Stillwater stretches black and indeterminate against the sky. At intervals a dull, metallic sound, like the guttural twang of a violin string, rises form the frog-invested swamp skirting the highway. Suddenly the birds stir in their nests over there in the woodland, and break into that wild jargoning chorus with which they herald the advent of a new day. In the apple-orchards and among the plum-trees of the few gardens in Stillwater, the wrens and the robins and the blue-jays catch up the crystal crescendo, and what a melodious racket they make of it with their fifes and flutes and flageolets! The village lies in a trance like death. Possibly not a soul hears this music, unless it is the watchers at the bedside of Mr. Leonard Tappleton, the richest man in town, who has lain dying these three days, and cannot last until sunrise. Or perhaps some mother, drowsily hushing her wakeful baby, pauses a moment and listens vacantly to the birds singing. But who else?

About this title

About the Author:

American short-story writer, poet and editor, Aldrich played an influential role in the development of the short-story genre. He was born in Portsmouth and based his best work Story of a Bad Boy (1870) on the life he experienced there. His first book of poetry, Bells was published in 1855. Aldrich's work comprises of both prose and poetry. Some of his major works are Marjory Daw and Other People (1873), Cloth of Gold (1874), Queen of Sheba (1877), Mercedes and Later Lyrics (1884), and Windham Towers (1890).

About this edition

• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1421804956
• ISBN 13: 9781421804958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: 1stworld Library