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Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things

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Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things

Henry Van Dyke

170 pages~3 hr 24 min read25 chapters$4.99
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Angling is really an excuse to think, to wander, and to wait. Henry Van Dyke's gentle essays turn the fisherman's luck into meditations on patience, chance, and the small pleasures of streamside life. Graceful and quietly wise. Take a leisurely seat by the water with a writer who fished for more than fish.

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25 chapters

  1. 1FISHERMAN'S LUCK AND SOME OTHER UNCERTAIN THINGS
  2. 2FISHERMAN'S LUCK
  3. 3THE THRILLING MOMENT
  4. 4TALKABILITY
  5. 5A PRELUDE AND THEME WITH VARIATIONS
  6. 6I. PRELUDE—ON AN OLD, FOOLISH MAXIM
  7. 7II. THEME—ON A SMALL, USEFUL VIRTUE
  8. 8III. VARIATIONS—ON A PLEASANT PHRASE FROM MONTAIGNE
  9. 9A WILD STRAWBERRY
  10. 10LOVERS AND LANDSCAPE
  11. 11A FATAL SUCCESS
  12. 12A NORWEGIAN HONEYMOON
  13. 13WHO OWNS THE MOUNTAINS?
  14. 14A LAZY, IDLE BROOK
  15. 15I. A CASUAL INTRODUCTION
  16. 16II. A BETTER ACQUAINTANCE
  17. 17III. THE SECRETS OF INTIMACY
  18. 18THE OPEN FIRE

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