{"product_id":"2940013364240","title":"The Later Life","description":"• \"TYPE 'SOGAN' IN THE NOOK BOOK SEARCH BOX TO VIEW ALL MY TITLES!\"\u003cbr\u003e• Table of contents with working links to chapters is included\u003cbr\u003e• The book has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors\u003cbr\u003e• New and improved version\u003cbr\u003e• \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVan der Welcke woke that morning from a long, sound sleep and stretched himself luxuriously in the warmth of the sheets. But suddenly he remembered what he had been dreaming; and, as he did so, he gazed into the wardrobe-glass, in which he could just see himself from his pillow. A smile began to flicker about his curly moustache; his blue eyes lit up with merriment. The sheets, which still covered his body—he had flung his arms above his head—rose and fell with the ripple of his silent chuckles; and suddenly, irrepressibly, he burst into a loud guffaw:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Addie!” he shouted, roaring with laughter. “Addie, are you up?... Addie, come here for a minute!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe door between the two rooms opened; Addie entered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Addie!... Just imagine ... just imagine what I’ve been dreaming. It was at the seaside—Ostende or Scheveningen or somewhere—and everybody, everybody was going about ... half-naked ... their legs bare... and the rest beautifully dressed. The men had coloured shirts and light jackets and exquisite ties and straw hats, gloves and a stick in their hands ... and the rest ... the rest was stark naked. The ladies wore lovely blouses, magnificent hats, parasols ... and that was all!... And there was nothing in it, Addie, really there was nothing in it; it was all quite natural, quite proper, quite fashionable; and they walked about like that and sat on chairs and listened to the music!... And the fishermen ... the fishermen, Addie, went about like that too!... And the musicians ... in the bandstand ... were half-naked too; and ... the tails ... of their dress-coats ... hung down ... well ... like that!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVan der Welcke, as he told his dream in broken sentences, lay shaking with laughter; his whole bed shook, the sheets rose and fell; he was red in the face, as if on the verge of choking; he wept as though consumed with grief; he gasped for breath, threw the bed-clothes off:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Just imagine it ... just imagine it ... you never ... you never saw such a stretch of sands as that!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddie had begun by listening with his usual serious face; but, when he saw his father crying and gasping for breath, rolling about in the bed, and when the vision of those sands became clearer to his imagination, he also was seized with irresistible laughter. But he had one peculiarity, that he could not laugh outright, but, shaken with internal merriment, would laugh in his stomach without uttering a sound; and he now sat on the edge of his father’s bed, rocking with silent laughter as the bed rocked under him. He tried not to look at his father, for, when he saw his father’s face, distorted and purple with his paroxysms of laughter, lying on the white pillow like the mask of some faun, he had to make agonized clutches at his stomach and, bent double, to try to laugh outright; and he couldn’t, he couldn’t.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Doesn’t it ... doesn’t it ... strike you as funny?” asked Van der Welcke, hearing no sound of laughter from his son.","brand":"vladislav sogan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145673097456,"sku":"2940013364240","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013364240_p0.jpg?v=1763580263","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013364240","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}