The story of the other wise man / by Henry Van Dyke
| dc.contributor | McMahon, Kenneth University of Strathclyde Glasgow |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T14:55:33Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T14:55:33Z |
| dc.date.created | 1907 |
| dc.date.issued | 1992-09-29 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1711 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1711 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 53 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | American fiction -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | The story of the other wise man / by Henry Van Dyke |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 53870 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke Contents Preface The Sign in the Sky By the Waters of Babylon For the Sake of a Little Child In the Hidden Way of Sorrow A Pearl of Great Price PREFACE It is now some years since this little story was set afloat on the sea of books. It is not a man-of-war, nor even a high-sided merchantman; only a small, peaceful sailing-vessel. Yet it has had rather an adventurous voyage. Twice it has fallen into the hands of pirates. The tides have carried it to far countries. It has been passed through the translator's port of entry into German, French, Armenian, Turkish, and perhaps some other foreign regions. Once I caught sight of it flying the outlandish flag of a brand-new phonetic language along the coasts of France; and once it was claimed by a dealer in antiquities as a long-lost legend of the Orient. Best of all, it has slipped quietly into many a far-away harbour that I have never seen, and found a kindly welcome, an . . .
