Overview
The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dales or downs, and bespeaks a tomb-like stillness more emphatic than that of glades and pools. The contrast of what is with what might be probably accounts for this. To step, for instance, at the place under notice, from the hedge of the plantation into the adjoining pale thoroughfare, and pause amid its emptiness for a moment, was to exchange by the act of a single stride the simple absence of human companionship for an incubus of the forlorn.
- | Author: Thomas Hardy
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Sep 08, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 212 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1502312786
- | ISBN-13: 9781502312785
