Romola
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9781430478928
Subjects: Classic fiction; Historical fiction; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Classics; Fiction / Classics; Fiction : Historical - General; Historical - General
First sentence: MORE than three centuries and a half ago, in the mid springtime of 1492, we are sure that the angel of the dawn, as he travelled with broad slow wing from the Levant to the of Hercules, and from the summits of the Caucasus across all the snowy alpine ridges to the dark nakedness of the western isles, saw nearly the same outline of firm land and unstable sea-saw the same great mountain shadows on the same valleys as he has seen to-day-saw olive mounts, and pine forests, and the broad plains green with young corn or rain-freshened grass-saw the domes and spires of cities rising by the river sides or mingled with the sedge-like masts on the many-curved sea coast, in the same spots where they rise to-day.