Tiger-Lilies.: A Novel.

by Sidney Lanier

Book Overview

PITIABLE case, when one's book, in the hour of birth, must wear steel on dimpled shoulders and grasp swordhilt with chubby fingers; must be laid into a battle as into a cradle, like Hercules among the serpents; must be its own accoucheur, nurse, and defender If each child, immediately after finding itself sprawling on this earth, were required to stand up in swaddling-clothes and pronounce some raison d' tre satisfactory to the world at large, --what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511794658
• ISBN13: 9781511794657
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"