كتاب The House on the Borderland / The Night Land

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. I have said that the river is without name; I may add that no map that I have hitherto consulted has shown either village or stream. They seem to have entirely escaped observation: indeed, they might never exist for all that the average guide tells one. Possibly this can be partly accounted for by the fact that the nearest railway station (Ardrahan) is some forty miles distant. It was early one warm evening when my friend and I arrived in Kraighten. We had reached Ardrahan the previous night, sleeping there in rooms hired at the village post office, and leaving in good time on the following morning, clinging insecurely to one of the typical jaunting cars.
وليم هوب هودسون - وليم هوب هودسون (بالإنجليزية: William Hope Hodgson)‏ (15 نوفمبر 1877، إسكس في المملكة المتحدة - 19 أبريل 1918، يبر في بلجيكا)؛ كاتب، مصور وروائي بريطاني. ❰ له مجموعة من الإنجازات والمؤلفات أبرزها ❞ The House on the Borderland and Other Novels ❝ ❞ The Finding of the Graiken ❝ ❞ The Dream of X ❝ ❞ The Stone Ship ❝ ❞ The Derelict ❝ ❞ The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' ❝ ❞ Das Haus im Grenzland: Phantastischer Science-Fiction-Roman - Neu-Übersetzung ❝ ❞ Tropical Horror ❝ ❞ Hirmu ja õuduse jutud II ❝ الناشرين : ❞ جميع الحقوق محفوظة للمؤلف ❝ ❞ دار زحمة كتاب للنشر والتوزيع ❝ ❞ New York : Ballantine Books ❝ ❞ Biblio ❝ ❱
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