The Storm Centre
by Charles Egbert Craddock
Publisher: The MacMillan Company 1905
Number of pages: 350
Description:
The place reminded him then and later of the storm centre of a cyclone. Outside the tempests of Civil War raged. He could hear, as he sat in the quiet, book-lined room, the turbulent drums fitfully beating in tented camps far down the Tennessee River.
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