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Sand, George

 
9781421896458: The Devil’s Pool
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ISBN 10: 1421896451 ISBN 13: 9781421896458
Editorial: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Sinopsis

I HAD just been looking long and sadly at Holbein’s plowman, and was walking through the fields, musing on rustic life and the destiny of the husbandman. It is certainly tragic for him to spend his days and his strength delving in the jealous earth, that so reluctantly yields up her rich treasures when a morsel of coarse black bread, at the end of the day’s work, is the sole reward and profit to be reaped from such arduous toil. The wealth of the soil, the harvests, the fruits, the splendid cattle that grow sleek and fat in the luxuriant grass, are the property of the few, and but instruments of the drudgery and slavery of the many. The man of leisure seldom loves, for their own sake, the fields and meadows, the landscape, or the noble animals which are to be converted into gold for his use. He comes to the country for his health or for change of air, but goes back to town to spend the fruit of his vassal’s labor.

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I HAD just been looking long and sadly at Holbein's plowman, and was walking through the fields, musing on rustic life and the destiny of the husbandman. It is certainly tragic for him to spend his days and his strength delving in the jealous earth, that so reluctantly yields up her rich treasures when a morsel of coarse black bread, at the end of the day's work, is the sole reward and profit to be reaped from such arduous toil. The wealth of the soil, the harvests, the fruits, the splendid cattle that grow sleek and fat in the luxuriant grass, are the property of the few, and but instruments of the drudgery and slavery of the many. The man of leisure seldom loves, for their own sake, the fields and meadows, the landscape, or the noble animals which are to be converted into gold for his use. He comes to the country for his health or for change of air, but goes back to town to spend the fruit of his vassal's labor.

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Editorial
1st World Library - Literary Society
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1421896451
ISBN 13 
9781421896458
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
148
Editor
1stworld Library
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9781843911050: The Devil's Pool (Hesperus Classics)

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ISBN 10:  1843911051 ISBN 13:  9781843911050
Editorial: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2004
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