My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
Charlotte M. Yonge · English
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My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
Charlotte M. Yonge · English
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Charlotte M. Yonge PREFACE Ideas have a tyrannous power of insisting on being worked out, even when one fears they may be leading in a track already worthily preoccupied. But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one of the fairy tales that we have seen so gracefully and quaintly modernised; and at the risk of seeming to travestie the Farnese statue in a shooting-coat and wide-awake, I could not help going on, as the notion grew deeper and more engrossing
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