His Own People
Publisher: 1st World Library
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Format: Perfect Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781419223815
Subjects: Fiction - General; Literary
First sentence: The glass-domed "palm-room" of the Grand Continental Hotel Magnifique in Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow green light which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tall palms, so that the two hundred people who may be refreshing or displaying themselves there at the tea-hour have something the look of under-water creatures playing upon the sea-bed.