The Diary of an Idle Woman in Sicily, 1882 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Diary of an Idle Woman in Sicily, 1882 Weary as I am after nearly forty hours' continuous travelling, I mentally decide that I would willingly per form the distance twice over to behold such a sight. At this moment we are slowly steaming along the sandy coast of Eastern Calabria, amid an undergrowth of cactus and tamarisk, close to the sea. As each mo ment brings me nearer, the more does the beauty of that Sicilian shore grow upon me. Where the gods lived and walked like men, cannot surely be a mere work-a-day world like any other. Sorrow and pain and death can never enter this island of the blest, as fresh, and fair, and young as when Proserpine gathered ¿owers in Buna's perfumed woods, and Ceres lit her torch at Etna's cone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.