Name: David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales
Author: Julian Hawthorne
ISBN: 978-1169238282

Literature & Fiction | Literary Fiction

David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales

By Julian Hawthorne 24 Jun, 2020

SAVE FOR LATER

DOWNLOAD

Brief Extract: There was a dramatic instinct in David, as in many eloquent men of impressionable temperament, which caused him every now and then to look upon all that was occurring as a sort of play and to resolve to act his part in a telling and picturesque manner. On that Saturday afternoon, he had an interview with the late Mr. Lambert's lawyers, and they were struck by his calm, lofty, and indifferent bearing. He seemed to regard worldly prosperity as a thing beneath him, yet to feel in a half-impatient way the responsibility which the control of wealth forced upon him. Less

File size
Print pages
Publisher
Language
ISBN

130.271 KB
98
Public Domain Book
English
978-1169238282

Julian Hawthorne

Author

Julian Hawthorne was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote poetry, novels, non-fiction, a series of crime novels based on the memoirs of New York's Inspector Byrnes, and edited several collections ...

Related Books

view all

Septimus:

Dawn:

Satan Sanderson:

Germany the Next Republic?:

Weapons of Mystery:

The house of sleep:

Contes de Noël:

A Short View of the Fravds, and Abvses Committed by Apothecaries, as Well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians, and of the Only Remedy Thereof by ... Medicines by Christopher Merret ... (16: