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Marcus Gard sat at his library table apparently in rapt contemplation of a pair of sixteenth century bronze inkwells, strange twisted shapes, half man, half beast, bearing in their breasts twin black pools. But his thoughts were far from their grotesque beauty - centered on vast schemes of destruction and reconstruction. The room was still, so quiet, in spite of its proximity to the crowded life of Fifth Avenue, that one divined its steel construction and the doubled and trebled casing of its many windows. The walls, hung with green Genoese velvet, met a carved and coffered ceiling, and touched the upper shelf of the breast-high bookcases that lined the walls. No picture broke the simple unity of color. Here and there a Donatello bronze silhouetted a slim shape, or a Florentine portrait bust smiled with veiled meaning from the quiet shadows. The shelves were rich in books in splendid bindings, gems of ancient workmanship or modern luxury, for the Great Man had the instinct of the masterpiece.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: Out of the Ashes
• Author: Ethel Watts Mumford
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781421803340
• ISBN: 9781421803340
• ID: 08410931
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 422 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. February 2006

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