Roman Fever and Other Stories
Contributors: Cynthia Griffin Wolff (Introduction)
Publisher: Scribner
Published: June 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780684829906
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short stories; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Classics; Literary; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / Literary
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.