Books with author Vanessa Montgomery

Excerpt from Lights and Shadows of German Life, Vol. 1 of 2I was awakened by the ringing of the church bells; and a cold shudder came over me at the thought that one more revolution of the earth would bring with it my fortieth birth-day.In his nineteenth year, the youth is ambitious of the honours of the twentieth, because he feels himself sufficiently qualified for many things for which our law deems him unripe. At nine-and-twenty he re fleets, with some painful sensations, that the thirtieth must close the frivolous career of pleasure. But woe to him who, ten years later, sees the approach of forty sans place, sans h0pe, sans wife, sans every thing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.