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Nonfiction · 1897

The Colour of Life

Alice Meynell

Reading time
about 1.5 h
Length
19,430 words · 80 pages
Structure
14 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

The Colour of Life, first published in 1897, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. The Colour of Life
  2. A Point of Biography
  3. Cloud
  4. Winds of the World
  5. The Honours of Mortality
  6. At Monastery Gates
  7. Rushes and Reeds
  8. Eleonora Duse
  9. Donkey Races
  10. Grass
  11. A Woman in Grey
  12. Symmetry and Incident
  13. The Illusion of Historic Time
  14. Eyes

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Alice Meynell

1847–1922 · Victorian

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