The Devil's Pool - Brossura

Sand, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1421896451 ISBN 13: 9781421896458

Casa editrice: 1st World Library, 2007

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: 1st World Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1421896451
• ISBN 13: 9781421896458
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 148
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile