Project Gutenberg 2013-07-10 Public domain in the USA. 74 Noyes, Alfred 1880 1958 Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others Prelude -- The light-house -- Uncle Hyacinth -- The creative impulse -- The man from Buffalo -- The Lusitania waits -- The log of the Evening Star -- Goblin peaches -- May Margaret -- Marooned -- The garden on the cliff -- The hand of the master. Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others" by Alfred Noyes is a collection of stories likely written in the early 20th century. The opening chapter, "The Light-House," introduces Peter Ramsay, the keeper of the Hatchets' Light, who feels content and happy in his isolated role, even amid the threat of World War I submarines. Through Peter's struggles with his writings and the existential challenges of modern society, the collection seems set to explore deeper themes of faith, courage, and humanity against the backdrop of the sea and war. The opening of the book focuses on Peter Ramsay, who is reflecting on his life as a lighthouse keeper while attempting to write an important book that he feels inspired to create. As night falls, the commander of a nearby U-boat, Captain Bernstein, plans a covert operation to infiltrate the lighthouse. The tension escalates when Peter is confronted by Bernstein and his crew after they break into his lighthouse, revealing an internal conflict as Peter contemplates his values and the broader implications of loyalty during wartime. The story sets the stage for Peter's moral quandaries and hints at larger themes of sacrifice and the impacts of war on the human spirit. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43186/43186-h/images/cover.jpg en World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction Short stories, English Sea stories, English PR Text Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 384378 384387 2024-09-18T07:11:17.591337 2023-09-18T15:24:32.684296 text/html text/html 383395 2013-07-10T10:10:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 157641 2013-07-10T10:10:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 169604 2024-09-18T07:11:23.238312 application/epub+zip 174098 2024-09-18T07:11:18.460376 application/epub+zip 174098 2024-09-18T07:11:17.982356 application/epub+zip 288615 2024-09-18T07:11:26.891289 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278142 2024-09-18T07:11:22.818332 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278247 2022-09-19T17:09:29.991017 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 360824 360602 2024-09-18T07:11:16.851394 2023-09-18T15:24:32.019360 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 360540 2013-07-10T10:10:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 139007 2013-07-10T10:10:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 360532 2013-07-10T10:10:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 138966 2013-07-10T10:10:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21155 2024-09-18T07:11:27.037300 application/rdf+xml 7060 2024-09-18T07:11:18.067341 image/jpeg 1477 2024-09-18T07:11:18.027334 image/jpeg 159385 2024-09-18T07:11:17.626362 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia