The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781432610272
Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Short Stories (single author); Fiction; Fiction - General
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.