The House on the Borderland

By Hodgson, William Hope

Book Id: WPLBN0000625402
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The House on the Borderland
Author:	Hodgson, William Hope
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Hope Hodgson, B. W. (n.d.). The House on the Borderland. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. THE FINDING OF THE MANUSCRIPT. RIGHT AWAY in the west of Ireland lies a tiny hamlet called Kraighten. It is situated, alone, at the base of a low hill. Far around there spreads a waste of bleak and totally inhospitable country; where, here and there at great intervals, one may come upon the ruins of some long desolate cottage?unthatched and stark. The whole land is bare and unpeopled, the very earth scarcely covering the rock that lies beneath it, and with which the country abounds, in places rising out of the soil in wave?shaped ridges. Yet, in spite of its desolation, my friend Tonnison and I had elected to spend our vacation there. He had stumbled on the place, by mere chance, the year previously, during the course of a long walking tour, and discovered the possibilities for the angler, in a small and unnamed river that runs past the outskirts of the little village.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The House on the Borderland, 1 -- William Hope Hodgson, 1