ninth vibration and other stories

Beck, Lily Adams

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• eBook ISBN:
  9782819935148
• Year: 2010

pubOne.info present you this new edition. There is a place uplifted nine thousand feet in purest air where one of the most ancient tracks in the world runs from India into Tibet. It leaves Simla of the Imperial councils by a stately road; it passes beyond, but now narrowing, climbing higher beside the khuds or steep drops to the precipitous valleys beneath, and the rumor of Simla grows distant and the way is quiet, for, owing to the danger of driving horses above the khuds, such baggage as you own must be carried by coolies, and you yourself must either ride on horseback or in the little horseless carriage of the Orient, here drawn and pushed by four men. And presently the deodars darken the way with a solemn presence, for-

Table of contents

• THE NINTH VIBRATION
• THE INTERPRETER A ROMANCE OF THE EAST
• THE INCOMPARABLE LADY
• THE HATRED OF THE QUEEN
• FIRE OF BEAUTY
• THE BUILDING OF THE TAJ MAHAL
• “HOW GREAT IS THE GLORY OF KWANNON!”
• THE ROUND-FACED BEAUTY
• Copyright