Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul

ISBN-13: 9781530555314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 98 str.

Marie Corelli

Opis

Dark against the sky towered the Great Pyramid, and over its apex hung the moon. Like a wreck cast ashore by some titanic storm, the Sphinx, reposing amid the undulating waves of grayish sand surrounding it, seemed for once to drowse. Its solemn visage that had impassively watched ages come and go, empires rise and fall, and generations of men live and die, appeared for the moment to have lost its usual expression of speculative wisdom and intense disdain-its cold eyes seemed to droop, its stern mouth almost smiled.