Project Gutenberg 2013-07-10 Public domain in the USA. 184 Noyes, Alfred 1880 1958 Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others Prelude -- The light-house -- Uncle Hyacinth -- The creative impulse -- The man from Buffalo -- The Lusitania waits -- The log of the Evening Star -- Goblin peaches -- May Margaret -- Marooned -- The garden on the cliff -- The hand of the master. Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others" by Alfred Noyes is a collection of stories likely written in the early 20th century. The opening chapter, "The Light-House," introduces Peter Ramsay, the keeper of the Hatchets' Light, who feels content and happy in his isolated role, even amid the threat of World War I submarines. Through Peter's struggles with his writings and the existential challenges of modern society, the collection seems set to explore deeper themes of faith, courage, and humanity against the backdrop of the sea and war. The opening of the book focuses on Peter Ramsay, who is reflecting on his life as a lighthouse keeper while attempting to write an important book that he feels inspired to create. As night falls, the commander of a nearby U-boat, Captain Bernstein, plans a covert operation to infiltrate the lighthouse. The tension escalates when Peter is confronted by Bernstein and his crew after they break into his lighthouse, revealing an internal conflict as Peter contemplates his values and the broader implications of loyalty during wartime. The story sets the stage for Peter's moral quandaries and hints at larger themes of sacrifice and the impacts of war on the human spirit. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43186/43186-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 79.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction Short stories, English Sea stories, English PR Text Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Short Stories Category: Historical Novels Category: British Literature 384568 2025-06-17T12:21:10.647170 text/html 383395 2013-07-10T10:10:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 169869 2025-06-17T12:21:16.422184 application/epub+zip 174116 2025-06-17T12:21:11.541212 application/epub+zip 174115 2025-06-17T12:21:11.103201 application/epub+zip 288683 2025-06-17T12:21:20.179132 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278268 2025-06-17T12:21:15.985147 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278247 2022-09-19T17:09:29.991017 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 360602 2023-09-18T15:24:32.019360 text/plain 16594 2025-06-17T12:21:20.356125 application/rdf+xml 7060 2025-06-17T12:21:11.193170 image/jpeg 1477 2025-06-17T12:21:11.148174 image/jpeg 159432 2025-06-17T12:21:10.686255 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia