Lord of the World - Classic Reprint Author:Robert Hugh Benson PROLOGUE — "You must give me a moment," said the old man, leaning back. — Percy resettled himself in his chair and waited, chin on hand. — It was a very silent room in which the three men sat, furnished with the extreme common sense of the period. It had neither window nor door; for it was now sixty years since the world, recognising that space is ... more »not confined to the surface of the globe, had begun to burrow in earnest. Old Mr. Templeton's house stood some forty feet below the level of the Thames embankment, in what was considered a somewhat commodious position, for he had only a hundred yards to walk before he reached the station of the Second Central Motor-circle, and a quarter of a mile to the volor-station at Blackfriars. He was over ninety years old, however, and seldom left his house now. The room itself was lined throughout with the delicate green jade-enamel prescribed by the Board of Health, and was suffused with the artificial sunlight discovered by the great Reuter forty yea
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CONTENTS; page; Paolo guexi; BOOK I; The Advent1; BOOK II; The Encounter93; BOOK III; The Victory 251
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Benjamin W. reviewed Lord of the World (Classic Reprint) on
Dull by today's standards. The author tells the reader what happened more than showing what happens itself. Frustrating read, ending does not bring it together.