Brother Jacob - George Eliot - Libros -  - 9798680151952 - 22 de febrero de 2021
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Brother Jacob

Book Excerpty placed in his own country, his thoughts naturally turn towards foreign climes; and David's imagination circled round and round the utmost limits of his geographical knowledge, in search of a country where a young gentleman of pasty visage, lipless mouth, and stumpy hair, would be likely to be received with the hospitable enthusiasm which he had a right to expect. Having a general idea of America as a country where the population was chiefly black, it appeared to him the most propitious destination for an emigrant who, to begin with, had the broad and easily recognizable merit of whiteness; and this idea gradually took such strong possession of him that Satan seized the opportunity of suggesting to him that he might emigrate under easier circumstances, if he supplied himself with a little money from his master's till. But that evil spirit, whose understanding, I am convinced, has been much overrated, quite wasted his time on this occasion. David would certainly have liked well to have some of his master's mo

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Publicado 22 de febrero de 2021
ISBN13 9798680151952
Páginas 40
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 2 mm   ·   68 g
Lengua Inglés  

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