Roman Fever
Publisher: Scribner
Published: May 1, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1240
ISBN-13: 9780684170114
Subjects: Literary; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / General; Literature: Texts; Literature: Classics; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: FROM the table at which they had been lunching two American ladies of ripe but well-cared-for middle age moved across the lofty terrace of the Roman restaurant and, leaning on its parapet, looked first at each other, and then down on the outspread glories of the Palatine and the Forum, with the same expression of vague but benevolent approval.
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