Excerpt from The Storm of a Hidden Life, Vol. 1 of 3 It was clear that this was not a dream. What could have happened and where was I From the low surrounding hum I could learn nothing; I remembered nothing, but only knew that my temples throbbed and that my tongue was rough, and that a vague suspicion was creeping over me that there must be something wrong. Looking in a dazed way out of a barred window, beyond the groups of people in the outer hall, I be held a street that I had never seen before, flecked by dazzling sunlight and sharp shadows which told my practised eye that it was midday. There were men and women moving briskly along this unknown street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.