Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
Published: June 1958
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9789997410054
Subjects: Literature: Classics
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.