The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands

by W. Somerset Maugham

Overview

THE Pacific is inconstant and uncertain like the soul of man. Sometimes it is grey like the English Channel off Beachy Head, with a heavy swell, and sometimes it is rough, capped with white crests, and boisterous. It is not so often that it is calm and blue. Then, indeed, the blue is arrogant. The sun shines fiercely from an unclouded sky. The trade wind gets into your blood and you are filled with an impatience for the unknown. The billows, magnificently rolling, stretch widely on all sides of you, and you forget your vanished youth, with its memories, cruel and sweet, in a restless, intolerable desire for life. On such a sea as this Ulysses sailed when he sought the Happy Isles. But there are days also when the Pacific is like a lake.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775452164
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	04/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	480,316
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