The Hired Baby with Other Stories and Social Sketches
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: September 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781417945795
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Short stories; Literary; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / Literary; Fiction-Short Stories (single author); Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: IT was a dark, desolate December night-a night that clung to the metropolis like a wet black shroud,-a night in which the heavy, low-hanging vapours melted every now and then into a slow reluctant rain, cold as icicle drops in a rock-cavern.