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The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street. "Mr. Coverdale," said he softly, "can I speak with you a moment?" As I have casually alluded to the Veiled Lady, it may not be amiss to mention, for the benefit of such of my readers as are unacquainted with her now forgotten celebrity, that she was a phenomenon in the mesmeric line; one of the earliest that had indicated the birth of a new science, or the revival of an old humbug. Since those times her sisterhood have grown too numerous to attract much individual notice; nor, in fact, has any one of them come before the public under such skilfully contrived circumstances of stage effect as those which at once mystified and illuminated the remarkable performances of the lady in question. Nowadays, in the management of his "subject," "clairvoyant," or "medium," the exhibitor affects the simplicity and openness of scientific experiment;

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Plný název: Blithedale Romance
• Autor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 268
• EAN: 9781421826769
• ISBN: 9781421826769
• ID: 08412525
• Nakladatelství: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Hmotnost: 500 g
• Rozměry: 148 × 224 × 26 mm
• Datum vydání: 15. June 2007

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