bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Read this ebook for free! No credit card needed, absolutely nothing to pay.

Words: 34499 in 8 pages

This is an ebook sharing website. You can read the uploaded ebooks for free here. No credit cards needed, nothing to pay. If you want to own a digital copy of the ebook, or want to read offline with your favorite ebook-reader, then you can choose to buy and download the ebook.

10% popularity   0 Reactions

Book I

Interferences with the Reading Habit

The First Interference: Civilisation

"I see the ships," said The Eavesdropper, as he stole round the world to me, "on a dozen sides of the world. I hear them fighting with the sea."

"And what do you see on the ships?" I said.

"Figures of men and women--thousands of figures of men and women."

"And what are they doing?"

"They are walking fiercely," he said,--"some of them,--walking fiercely up and down the decks before the sea."

"Because they cannot stand still and look at it. Others are reading in chairs because they cannot sit still and look at it."

"And there are some," said The Eavesdropper, "with roofs of boards above their heads --down in the hold--playing cards."

There was silence.

"What are you seeing now?" I said.


Free books android app tbrJar TBR JAR Read Free books online gutenberg


Load Full (0)

Login to follow story

More posts by @FreeBooks

0 Comments

Sorted by latest first Latest Oldest Best

 

Back to top