His Own People
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Published: May 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781421804088
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General
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.