The Champagne Standard (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Champagne Standard (Classic Reprint) written by John Lane and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Champagne Standard In fact, all the ideas that did occur to me were miles away from a preface. It was maddening' I even demanded that the ocean should stop making such a horrid noise, if only for five minutes. And that set me idly to thinking what would happen to the world if the tides should really be struck motionless even for that short space of time. The idea is so out of my line that it is quite at the service of any dis tressed romancer, dashed with science, who, also, may be nibbling his pencil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.