A House Of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde - Books -  - 9798701074765 - January 28, 2021
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A House Of Pomegranates

The lad for he was only a lad, being but sixteen years of age - was not sorry at their departure, and had flung himself back with a deep sigh of relief on the soft cushions of his embroidered couch, lying there, wild-eyed and open mouthed, like a brown woodland Faun, or some young animal of the forest newly snared by the hunters. And, indeed, it was the hunters who had found him, coming upon him almost by chance as, bare limbed and pipe in hand, he was following the flock of the poor goatherd who had brought him up, and whose son he had always fancied himself to be. The child of the old King's only daughter by a secret marriage with one much beneath her in station a stranger, some said, who, by the wonderful magic of his lute playing, had made the young Princess love him; while others spoke of an artist from Rimini, to whom the Princess had shown much, perhaps too much honour, and who had suddenly disappeared from the city, leaving his work in the Cathedral unfinished he had been, when but a week old, stolen away from his mother's side, as she slept, and given into the charge of a common peasant and his wife, who were without children of their own.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 28, 2021
ISBN13 9798701074765
Pages 54
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 3 mm   ·   68 g
Language English  

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