Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook24 pages17 minutes
Desert Air: 1905
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Desert Air" (1905) by Robert Hichens. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Read more from Robert Hichens
The Return Of The Soul: 1896 The Figure In The Mirage: 1905 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Spinster: 1905 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Way of Ambition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Prophet of Berkeley Square: A Play in Five Acts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Spell of Egypt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Desert Drum: 1905 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBye-Ways Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBella Donna: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Green Carnation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHalima And The Scorpions: 1905 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Woman with the Fan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTongues of Conscience Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Near East: Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Near East: "Ancient Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEgypt and Its Monuments Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Collaborators: 1896 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlames Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEgypt and Its Monuments Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Wilderness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSmaïn; and Safti's Summer Day: 1905 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Desert Air
Related ebooks
Desert Air: 1905 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDesert Air 1905 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMYSTERY & SUSPENSE: Ultimate Collection - 25+ Thriller Novels in One Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelphi Collected Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOppenheim Thrillers - Premium Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIvan Greet's Masterpiece Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of Disappearing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe O’Ruddy: A Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe O'Ruddy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Time Before This Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMissed Murder, A Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Surprises of Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPunch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTHE GREAT IMPERSONATION (Spy Thriller Classic) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Night-Born Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great Impersonation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Parish Darker: A Victorian Suspense Novella Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSybil: The Two Nations Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDoña Perfecta (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPapers from Overlook-House Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Night Born: A Collection of Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Be Read At Dusk: "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers." Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sybil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Veldt Camp Fires Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Night-Born: And Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSatan's Circus (Fantasy and Horror Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Galoshes of Fortune Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
General Fiction For You
The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything's Fine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebecca Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The King James Version of the Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Other Black Girl: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
245. Snake by DH Lawrence: Lawrence read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetrya... 0% found this document usefulWhat They Didn’t Teach Me at Oxford, I Learned in Jail 0% found this document usefulAll My Weird Friends 0% found this document usefulCoffee: One of Life’s Delights or Just Hot Bean Juice? (Aurelius – Meditations 6:13) 0% found this document usefulTreasure Hunt 0% found this document usefulThe Discovery of Oz: In Jackson Hole, Wyoming - not far from the Emerald City... 0% found this document usefulSchiehallion: Highland Folklore and Second Sight 0% found this document usefulIslands of Writers 0% found this document usefulEmma Chapters 35-36 0% found this document usefulSnow-white and the seven dwarfs 0% found this document usefulChapter 92. Chocolate Ears 0% found this document usefulIrene Vallejo, author of "Papyrus" 0% found this document usefulPioneers and Settlers 0% found this document usefulForgiving an Enemy - The Basket of Flowers - 20 - Kids Story Bedtime Stories for Children and Adults 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Fanny Burney, Grandmother of the English Novel The Paris ReviewArticle
Fanny Burney, Grandmother of the English Novel
Nov 6, 2019
7 min readPats On The Back The FieldArticle
Pats On The Back
Dec 12, 2019
I AM writing this column from a prone position. Reclining on my sofa in the library, propped up with cushions like some latter-day Lady Ottoline Morrell, but without the wit, brilliance and patronage. I wish I could say my current condition arose fro
3 min readThe Time Traveller Returns New PhilosopherArticle
The Time Traveller Returns
Oct 29, 2018
7 min readToo Much, Magic Bus SA Country LifeArticle
Too Much, Magic Bus
Dec 9, 2019
8 min readThe Sun Has Risen On The Earth SA Country LifeArticle
The Sun Has Risen On The Earth
Jul 15, 2019
8 min readA Love Letter To St John's Tavern, Archway: Some Pubs Are 10/10. This One Goes To 11 Evening StandardArticle
A Love Letter To St John's Tavern, Archway: Some Pubs Are 10/10. This One Goes To 11
Jun 3, 2024
6 min readLife In The past Lane go: PlattelandArticle
Life In The past Lane
Aug 27, 2021
5 min readBerber Vodka GetawayArticle
Berber Vodka
Sep 10, 2021
3 min readPeace Comes With A Smile SA Country LifeArticle
Peace Comes With A Smile
Nov 11, 2019
8 min readIran National Geographic Traveller (UK)Article
Iran
May 5, 2022
When I saw the bush, I could hardly contain my delight. It rose from the grainy sweep of sand before me like a towering will-o’-thewisp, part-fern, part-wishful phantasm. Shade pooled from its roots in delicious, wasteful abandon. Could it be real? F
3 min readReaders’ Letters The OldieArticle
Readers’ Letters
Jun 28, 2023
6 min readI, Spy MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military HistoryArticle
I, Spy
Aug 7, 2018
Many things happened to me for the first time on a night in April 1944. I rode in a Black Maria; I jumped from a bomber with a tangled parachute; and I began my mission in wartime France as a British secret agent. We drove in the Black Maria from Int
17 min readA Countryside For All The Critic MagazineArticle
A Countryside For All
Jun 29, 2023
IT WAS ONE OF THOSE dinner parties that didn’t feel like it was going particularly well. Someone had just broken up with their girlfriend for want of someone else; my little puppy wouldn’t stop howling in the hall, and one of our guests was strung ou
3 min readEating My Words Garden & GunArticle
Eating My Words
Nov 15, 2021
9 min readA Brief Ghostly Encounter… The Railway MagazineArticle
A Brief Ghostly Encounter…
Nov 30, 2020
7 min readAlbania Plus Motorcycle Sport & LeisureArticle
Albania Plus
Mar 2, 2022
6 min readOn Celtic Storytelling, From the Bardic to the Mythic Literary HubArticle
On Celtic Storytelling, From the Bardic to the Mythic
Jul 17, 2020
4 min readMICHAEL KOHLHAAS Part Seven PEARLArticle
MICHAEL KOHLHAAS Part Seven
Jul 30, 2019
19 min readStop Hating on Adjectives! The MillionsArticle
Stop Hating on Adjectives!
Jun 12, 2019
A common admonition in creative writing pedagogy is, “Cut as many adjectives as possible.” I propose that this rule springs from mere prejudice. The post Stop Hating on Adjectives! appeared first on The Millions.
7 min readCarningli The Great OutdoorsArticle
Carningli
Mar 22, 2024
4 min readSummer Escapism Gourmet TravellerArticle
Summer Escapism
Dec 29, 2019
14 min readMagnets: Carried through time, lovers seek their purpose. NautilusArticle
Magnets: Carried through time, lovers seek their purpose.
Feb 6, 2014
Moon Colony B, 2213 Former Ponzi-schemer Mary Pillar digs through a trashcan. It smells like rotten eggs and milk. She is elderly and homeless, living in an alley between two eco-efficient skyscrapers. Dust particles dance around her. She has lost ev
11 min readReaders' Letters The OldieArticle
Readers' Letters
Feb 8, 2023
4 min readPart Eleven, The Crossing And Train To Paris Stamp CollectorArticle
Part Eleven, The Crossing And Train To Paris
Jan 14, 2022
4 min readClimbing Mount Cameroon GetawayArticle
Climbing Mount Cameroon
Nov 18, 2019
In 1895 Mary Kingsley became the first woman to climb Mount Cameroon. Her apparel was unlikely: long black trailing skirt, tight waist, high collar, a small fur cap, lace-up shoes and a parasol. In every respect she was unusual. With no formal school
4 min read‘I Will Throw Myself Into Every Experience, I Will Accept Every Dare, I Will Agree To Maddening Offers And Crazy Adventures. Yes.’ Lonely PlanetArticle
‘I Will Throw Myself Into Every Experience, I Will Accept Every Dare, I Will Agree To Maddening Offers And Crazy Adventures. Yes.’
May 14, 2020
4 min readMaryse Condé on the Iconic African Dish That Conjures a Thousand Homes Literary HubArticle
Maryse Condé on the Iconic African Dish That Conjures a Thousand Homes
Jan 23, 2020
14 min readLa Otra Historia Guernica MagazineArticle
La Otra Historia
Jun 30, 2022
14 min readJan Morris The Paris ReviewArticle
Jan Morris
Jun 15, 2018
I have always rather envied the poet Ovid, who was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus, you may remember, to a remote place called Tomis on the shores of the Black Sea. There he died, ten years later, and his exile has gone into legend and int
17 min readThe Island The American ScholarArticle
The Island
Jun 4, 2018
8 min read
Related categories
Reviews for Desert Air
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Desert Air - Robert Hichens
Robert Hichens
Desert Air
1905
EAN 8596547231127
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
I
II
III
I
Table of Contents
On an evening of last summer I was dining in London at the Carlton with two men. One of them was an excellent type of young England, strong, healthy, athletic, and straightforward. The other was a clever London doctor who was building up a great practice in the West End. At dessert the conversation turned upon a then recent tragedy in which a great reputation had gone down, and young England spoke rather contemptuously of the victim, with the superior surprise human beings generally express about the sin which does not happen to be theirs.
I can’t understand it!
was his conclusion. It’s beyond me.
Climate,
said the doctor quietly.
What?
Climate. Air.
Young England looked inexpressively astonished.
But hang it all!
he exclaimed, you don’t mean to say change of air means change of nature?
Not to everyone. Not to you, perhaps. Have you travelled much?
Well, I’ve been to Paris for the Grand Prix, and to Monte——
"For the gambling. That’s hardly travelling. Now, I’ve studied this subject a little, quietly in Harley Street. I’m no traveller myself, but I
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1