Ombra
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Description
Ombra is a novel by Mrs Oliphant, issued in a new edition in London in eighteen eighty. Oliphant's other works, including Madonna Mary, For Love and Life, and Squire Arden, are listed on the title page. A verse dialogue heads the book, calling a tale a thing made from nothing. Foam on the ocean and frost on the grass are its images for a story's stuff.
Youth and virgins' lives are woven of such gossamer threads, the verse answers. Ombra, an Italian word for shade, fits a tale of faint and passing lives. The edition sold as a popular two shilling novel, its series line states. Oliphant's quiet studies of women and feeling fill that slight frame.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 902 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |