'Twixt Land and Sea (Penguin Classics)

Paperback, 240 pages

English language

Published May 17, 1991 by Penguin Classics.

ISBN:
9780140183924
OCLC Number:
26683972

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Ever since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days' passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic of its inhabitants delight in describing it as the Pearl of the Ocean. Well, let us call it the Pearl. It's a good name. A pearl distilling much sweetness upon the world.

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  • Classic fiction
  • Modern fiction
  • Short stories
  • Fiction
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Literature: Classics
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