Books with title Tom Sylvester

Marigold hides from from a group of annoying children on the beach near her home and discovers a lane she has never seen before. At the end of the lane is a shop and in the shop window are an amazing group of kites, all with very realistic faces. As she stares at them, the big black one winks at her! Startles, she thinks she must have imagined it but then she meets Lewis, the grandson of Horatio the Kite Maker and is invited in to meet him and the kites; she finds they are all truly amazing and weirdly - alive. Sylvester, the big black kite proves to be very rude and naughty but she soon learns to admire his strength and courage as together with Lewis and her cousin Sonia, she embarks on a hair-raising adventure to find a precious lost kite. If they are to succeed, they have to get the better of a wicked and mysterious lady who might, or might not, be a witch.

Excerpt from Tom Sylvester: A NovelThat charm is all gone now. It faded away slowly but surely, as the color leaves the petal of a rose. The first pufl' of steam blighted it. One tall factory-chimney showered down a little soot into an old fashioned garden, which was soon ploughed up to give the lofty intruder a domineer ing fellow. So, by degrees, Worthingham outgrew its gentle nature, and became the noisy, manufact uring centre that we know to-day. There are no longer any tiger-lilies and four-o'clocks in its shrunken flower-beds. Everywhere has cropped up a crude, pretentious ugliness, too glaring, as suredly, for endurance. In this later hour, which is but an hour that casts a fleeting shadow upon the dial, it is newer and younger than it used to be. It is like some honest rustic, clad for a day in ill chosen garments and finding himself ill at ease.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.

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ <title> Tom Sylvester: A Novel<author> Thomas Russell Sullivan<publisher> C. Scribner's Sons, 1893

Excerpt from Tom Sylvester: A NovelThat charm is all gone now. It faded away slowly but surely, as the color leaves the petal of a rose. The first pufl' of steam blighted it. One tall factory-chimney showered down a little soot into an old fashioned garden, which was soon ploughed up to give the lofty intruder a domineer ing fellow. So, by degrees, Worthingham outgrew its gentle nature, and became the noisy, manufact uring centre that we know to-day. There are no longer any tiger-lilies and four-o'clocks in its shrunken flower-beds. Everywhere has cropped up a crude, pretentious ugliness, too glaring, as suredly, for endurance. In this later hour, which is but an hour that casts a fleeting shadow upon the dial, it is newer and younger than it used to be. It is like some honest rustic, clad for a day in ill chosen garments and finding himself ill at ease.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.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.