The Fisherman and His Soul - A Fairy Tale by Oscar Wilde (from A House of Pomegranates) with illustrations by Jessie M. King Every evening the young Fisherman went out upon the sea, and threw his nets into the water. When the wind blew from the land he caught nothing, or but little at best, for it was a bitter and black-winged wind, and rough waves rose up to meet it. Every evening he went out upon the sea, and one evening the net was so heavy that hardly could he draw it into the boat. But no fish at all was in it, nor any monster or thing of horror, but only a little Mermaid lying fast asleep. Her hair was as a wet fleece of gold, and each separate hair as a thread of fine gold in a cup of glass. So beautiful was she that when the young Fisherman saw her he was filled with wonder, and he put out his hand and drew the net close to him, and leaning over the side he clasped her in his arms. And when she saw that she could in no way escape from him, she began to weep, and said, 'I pray thee let me go, for I am the only daughter of a King, and my father is aged and alone.'
The Bookshelf Muse DarkCopy - Simple, full screen text editing Bookshelf Porn 29 Books To Get You Through Your Quarter-Life Crisis Mary Shelley letters discovered in Essex archive It was an idle click on an unpromising website that first directed Nora Crook towards the most exciting and unexpected discovery of her distinguished academic career. Crook, a professor emerita at Anglia Ruskin University and expert on the Romantic period, was researching an obscure 19th-century novelist when her internet search brought up a listing for 13 documents at Essex Record Office, catalogued under the tantalising words: "Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley". "I thought: 'What is this?' Thanks to "pure serendipity", Crook had chanced upon the largest collection of unpublished letters by the author of Frankenstein to be discovered in decades. The later letters, written in an increasingly scrawled hand, are short and distracted, full of apologies for her failing memory and powers. The "nondescript-looking" missives were written to Horace Smith and his daughter Eliza. "The Smith connection has been known but this little bit of the jigsaw hasn't been," said Crook.