Flip: and other stories
(2016)
Fiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781911535164 (electronic bk.) MWT11722014, 1911535161 (electronic bk.) 11722014
LANGUAGE
English
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NOTES
Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of the heat-laden road the eye rested upon it wistfully; all along the flank of the mountain, which seemed to pant and quiver in the oven-like air, through rising dust, the slow creaking of dragging wheels, the monotonous cry of tired springs, and the muffled beat of plunging hoofs, it held out a promise of sheltered coolness and green silences beyond
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