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The Tragic Comedians
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Indypublish.Com
Publication date June 30, 2008
Pages 164
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781437820331
ISBN-10 1437820336
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $33.99
§As reported by publisher
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Excerpt: ...together, and sat together, and drank a noble Rhine wine together-true Rauenthal. His robustness of body and soul inspired the wish that his well-born wife might be, in her dainty fashion, yet honestly and without mincing, his possible boonfellow: he and she, glass in hand, thanking the bountiful heavens, blessing mankind in chorus. It belonged to his hearty dream of the wife he would choose, were she to be had. The position of interpreter of heaven's benevolence to mankind through his own enjoyment of the gifts, was one that he sagaciously demanded for himself, sharing it with the Philistine unknowingly; and to have a wife no less wise than he on this throne of existence was a rosy exaltation. Clotilde kindled to the hint of his festival mood of Solomon at the banquet. She was not devoid of a discernment of flavours; she had heard grave judges at her father's board profoundly deliver their verdicts upon this and that vineyard and vintage; and it is a note of patriotism in her country to be enthusiastic for wine of the Rhine: she was, moreover, thirsty from much talking and excitement. She drank her glass relishingly, declaring the wine princely. Alvan smacked his hands in a rapture: 'You are not for the extract of raisin our people have taken to copy from French Sauternes, to suit a female predilection for sugar?' 'No, no, the grape for me!' said she: 'the Rhine grape with the elf in it, and the silver harp and the stained legend!' 'Glorious!' He toasted the grape. 'Wine of the grape is the young bride-the young sun-bride! divine, and never too sweet, never cloying like the withered sun-dried, with its one drop of concentrated sugar, that becomes ten of gout. No raisin-juice for us! None of their too-long-on-the-stem clusters! We are for the blood of the grape in her youth, her heaven- kissing ardour. I have a cellar charged with the bravest of the Rhine. We-will we not assail it, bleed it in the gallant days to come? we two!' The picture of...

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