A Motor-Flight Through France E-Book

Edith Wharton

• Herausgeber: Publisher s11838
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

A Motor-Flight Through France written by Edith Wharton who was an American novelist, short storywriter, and designer. This book was published in 1908. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy reading this book.

Leseprobe

A Motor-Flight Through France

By

Edith Wharton

Table of Contents

PART I.

I. BOULOGNE TO AMIENS

II. BEAUVAIS AND ROUEN

III. FROM ROUEN TO FONTAINEBLEAU

IV. THE LOIRE AND THE INDRE

V. NOHANT TO CLERMONT

VI. IN AUVERGNE

VII. ROYAT TO BOURGES

PART II.

I. PARIS TO POITIERS

II. POITIERS TO THE PYRENEES

III. THE PYRENEES TO PROVENCE

IV. THE RHONE TO THE SEINE

PART III. A FLIGHT TO THE NORTH-EAST

CHAUVIGNY: RUINS OF CASTLE

PART I.

I.BOULOGNE TO AMIENS

The motor-car has restored the romance of travel.

Freeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, the bondage to fixed hours and the beaten track, the approach to each town through the area of ugliness and desolation created by the railway itself, it has given us back the wonder, the adventure and the novelty which enlivened the way of our posting grand-parents. Above all these recovered pleasures must be ranked the delight of taking a town unawares, stealing on it by back ways and unchronicled paths, and surprising in it some intimate aspect of past time, some silhouette hidden for half a century or more by the ugly mask of railway embankments and the iron bulk of a huge station. Then the villages that we missed and yearned for from the windows of the train—the unseen villages have been given back to us!—and nowhere could the importance of the recovery have been more delightfully exemplified than on a May afternoon in the Pas-de-Calais, as we climbed the long ascent beyond Boulogne on the road to Arras.

It is a delightful country, broken into wide waves of hill and valley, with hedge-rows high and leafy enough to bear comparison with the Kentish hedges among which our motor had left us a day or two before; and the villages, the frequent, smiling, happily-placed villages, will also meet successfully the more serious challenge of their English rivals—meet it on other grounds and in other ways, with paved market-places and clipped  instead of gorse-fringed commons, with soaring belfries instead of square church towers, with less of verdure, but more, perhaps, of outline—certainly of line.

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Lesen Sie weiter in der vollst?ndigen Ausgabe!