His Own People
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: September 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780809532964
Subjects: General; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: The glass-domed "palm-room" of the Grand Continental Hotel Magnifique in Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow green light which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tall palms, so that the two hundred people who may be refreshing or displaying themselves there at the tea-hour have something the look of under-water creatures playing upon the sea-bed.