Produced by Suzanne Shell, David Newman and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE WILLOWS Algernon Blackwood (1907) I After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp
The Man Whom the Trees Loved by Algernon Blackwood
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Harry Jones and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE MAN WHOM THE TREES LOVED ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 1912 ~I~ He painted trees as by some special divining instinct of their essential qualities. He understood them. He knew why in an oak forest, for instance, each individual was utterly distinct from its fellows, and why
The Human Chord by Algernon Blackwood
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE HUMAN CHORD BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 1910 _To those who hear._ Chapter I I As a boy he constructed so vividly in imagination that he came to believe in the living reality of his creations: for everybody and everything he found names–real names.
The Garden of Survival by Algernon Blackwood
Scanned and proofed by David Moynihan dmoynihan@blackmask.com I IT will surprise and at the same time possibly amuse you to know that I had the instinct to tell what follows to a Priest, and might have done so had not the Man of the World in me whispered that from professional Believers I should get
The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
Produced by Suzanne Shell, David Cortesi and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE DAMNED Algernon Blackwood 1914 Chapter I “I’m over forty, Frances, and rather set in my ways,” I said good-naturedly, ready to yield if she insisted that our going together on the visit involved her happiness. “My work is rather heavy just now too, as
The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE CENTAUR ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 1911 I “We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.” –WILLIAM JAMES, _A Pluralistic Universe_ “…