Landscape with figures (Registro nro. 117489)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 26008381 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Fraser, Ronald, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1888-1974 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Landscape with figures |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "This book is only an attempt to reproduce, in words, experiences that have come in contemplating the landscapes, flowers and figures in Chinese pictures and on their porcelain."--Preface |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-08-30 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Aaron Adrignola, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Landscape with figures" by Ronald Fraser is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows a circle of European “Seven Sages” led by the industrial magnate Lord Sombrewater, whose minute-writer Ambrose Herbert narrates their voyage into an idealized China where art, landscape, and philosophy blur. Blending travel fantasy with philosophical comedy, it contrasts Western power, science, and appetite with ancient Chinese poise, with Lychnis—Sombrewater’s vivid, questing daughter—at the emotional center. The opening of the novel presents a preface framing the tale as a mind’s encounter with Chinese art, then shifts to Ambrose’s calm diary of the Sages aboard the yacht Floating Leaf in eastern waters. After lyrical sea scenes and sharp portraits of the party—Lord Sombrewater, Lychnis, Ruby, Terence, Quentin, Sir Richard, Fulke, Sprot, and the ascetic Blackwood—a threatened mutiny and a storm push them to a river mouth amid fantastical hills. Guided by Terence’s vision of “Peach-blossom People” and the inscrutable Chinese steward they nickname Such-a-one, they abandon the yacht, don Chinese dress, and pole upstream. Along the way, Quentin’s brashness startles villagers until Such-a-one’s words disperse the crowds, Fulke privately declares his hopeless love for Lychnis, and a night sighting of a silent “dragon” (perhaps an aircraft) heightens the sense of myth. They work through a warm, intricate gorge, swim, and enter a serene valley of willows, blossoms, and lotus-lakes dominated by a rocky “Dragon Island.” Finally, they install themselves in exquisite pavilions—Lord Sombrewater, Lychnis, Ruby, Sir Richard, and Ambrose in the “Pavilion of the Yellow Emperor”—to begin their sojourn in this cultivated dream-land. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York City: Boni & Liveright, 1926 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Fantasy fiction |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | English fiction -- 20th century |
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| Uncontrolled term | British -- China -- Fiction |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3834498">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3834498</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76764">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76764</a> |
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