Linnet: A Romance

by Grant Allen · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 9 · 6,436 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Alps — Fiction · London (England) — Fiction · Tyrol (Austria) — Fiction

Words worth knowing: compatriot · chrysalis · salver · infrequent · grudgingly · piecemeal · domineer · heretical

L I N N E T =A R O M A N C E= B y G R A N T A L L E N Author of “UNDER SEALED ORDERS,” “MISS CAYLEY’S ADVENTURES,” ETC.

N e w Y o r k : : : N E W A M S T E R D A M B O O K C O M P A N Y : : : : M C M COPYRIGHT, 1900 BY NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY NOTE This story was written in the midst of the scenery which it describes; but the author desires to acknowledge his obligations for many touches of local colour to Mr. Baillie-Grohman’s admirable work on “Tyrol and the Tyrolese.” The quatrain on p. 283 is quoted, with some slight modifications (to adapt it to its place in this novel), from a poem by Mr. William Watson.

“TO INTRODUCE MR FLORIAN WOOD” II.

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