The Taskmasters (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

George Kibbe Turner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331661498 ISBN 13: 9781331661498

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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There are giants among these hills of ours, if you will but stop and consider them; colossal figures striding up and down; such stuff, it seems to me, as mankind made their demigods of three thousand years ago. You know those feudal barons of the medieval days - how the cliffs of Europe bristled with their turrets and their battlements. Great, fierce, unforgotten forms, we see them yet, each in his stronghold on his crag, glowering down those ancient valleys. How different was that old hill country then from ours? Times have changed, indeed, but men have not; and to some of us, at least, strange resemblances seem to arise.

First there were the iron hills of New England, which stand about us now, unconquered to this day. A century and a half, the poor hill farmer, his life hideous in its dreariness and sterility, scratched painfully at this meagre soil, indifferent to the last to his feeble persuasion.

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And now for over half a century this race has ruled here - father, son, and grandson; just and un just, wise and foolish, virtuous and profligate. They have called together the strange and uncouth peoples from the ends of the earth; they have cried afar, and the hungry generations of the old world have come tramping to the new; they have established and laid out towns and cities; they have led up railroads through an empty land; they have made this barren place the workshop of the world.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331661498
• ISBN 13: 9781331661498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330