This guy's not a bad writer:
The prettiest scenery in all England--and if I am contradicted in that assertion, I will say in all Europe--is in Devonshire, on the southern and southeastern skirts of Dartmoor, where the rivers Dart and Avon and Teign form themselves, and where the broken moor is half cultivated, and the wild-looking uplands fields are half moor. In making this assertion I am often met with much doubt, but it is by persons who do not really know the locality. Men and women talk to me on the matter who have travelled down the line of railway from Exeter to Plymouth, who have spent a fortnight at Torquay, and perhaps made an excursion from Tavistock to the convict prison on Dartmoor. But who knows the glories of Chagford? Who has walked through the parish of Manaton? Who is conversant with Lustleigh Cleeves and Withycombe in the moor? Who has explored Holne Chase? Gentle reader, believe me that you will be rash in contradicting me unless you have done these things.
I spent a fortnight in Tiverton 10 years ago. I walked a gloriously green river path every night and caressed the wood of a thousand year old church and stumbled across an unexpected, breath taking stone circle on Dartmoor. I'm with Mr. Baum.
I hadn't heard of Classic Reader before, but I've used Project Gutenberg. They have a pretty good L. Frank Baum selection too.
Looks like Classic Reader makes reading online easy and dowloading for reading offline awkward, and Project Gutenberg does just the reverse.
I'm with Mr. Baum.
Sorry, my mislead. That's not Baum, but Trollope.
Blissfully misled.
The memories are still just as lovely.
The memories are still just as lovely.
It sounds lovely, but when I hear "Torquay" my brain immediately leaps to Basil Fawlty.
Never saw anything remotely Fawlty during my stay there. Not even the old folks home where I volunteered.
Those places that didn't knock me over with grandeur, screamed quaint. And always the good kind. Never kwaint.
I really thought Harry was going to be the death in this book.
Which would make the next book, what, Harry Potter and the Long Dirt Nap?
Gandalfe, if you use the s spoiler shortcut, you don't have to worry about typing the right colour in.
Ita: I caught that - almost immediately. But not quite.
