- Classic Literature, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), London (england), fiction
A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea.
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Spare and meticulous.
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- First published
- 1912
- Pages
- 151
- Publisher
- Franklin Classics, Xist Publishing, Kessinger Publishing
- Editions
- 271
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781613827109
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“A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea.”
**Gilbert Keith Chesterton** was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist.
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