Dawn of All
by Robert Hugh Benson
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Once he slipped to a sitting position, drew back the little curtain over the porthole, and stared out. There was little to be seen; but by the sight of a lake of soft light that slid past at some incalculable depth a dozen miles away, he perceived that they had left the sea far behind and were spinning over the land of France. He looked out long, revolving thoughts and conjectures, striving to find some glimmer of memory by which he might adjust these new experiences; but there was none. He show more was like a child, with the brain of a man, plunged into a new mode of existence, where everything seemed reversed, and yet astonishingly obvious; it was the very simplicity that baffled him. The Christian religion was true down (or up) even to the Archangels that stand before God and control the powers of the air. show lessTags
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- Canonical title*
- L'alba di tutto: l'utopia di un mondo in cui Cristo trionfa
- Original title
- Dawn of All
- Original publication date
- 1911
- Important places
- London, England, UK; Rome, Italy; Lourdes, Occitanie, France; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Berlin, Germany
- First words
- Gradually memory and consciousness once more reasserted themselves, and he became aware that he was lying in bed.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Now, listen carefully," said the dying man . . .
- Original language
- English
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- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 823 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction
- LCC
- PZ3 .B4435 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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