The Path Of Life
Автор:
Stijn Streuvels, 274 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
1-419176-81-1
He had been half awake several times already, but each time he had slipped back into an uneasy doze, a restless, wearisome sojourn in a strange, drowsy world, in which he struggled with stupid, silly dream-spectres, all jumbled together in a huddled mass of incoherent, impossible thoughts and actions; a blank world in which all his workaday doings were forgotten; an after-life of tiring sleep following on the carouse of yesterday. He lay half-suffocated in the stifling heat of that tiled garret, lay tossing on a straw mattress. And suddenly, with a jolt that jerked him sleeping like a beast of burden. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1902 года (издательство "[Philadelphia] : J.B. Lippincott").