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The Children of the King: A Tale of Southern Italy

By F. Marion Crawford

2019-10-31 05:17:01

Brief Extract: Pigs everywhere, black, grunting and happy. Red-skirted, scarlet-bodiced women everywhere, too, all moving and carrying something. Galantuomini loafing at most of the corners, smoking clay pipes with cane stems, and the great Jew shopk ... Read more
Brief Extract: Pigs everywhere, black, grunting and happy. Red-skirted, scarlet-bodiced women everywhere, too, all moving and carrying something. Galantuomini loafing at most of the corners, smoking clay pipes with cane stems, and the great Jew shopkeeper's nose just visible from a distance as he stands in the door of his dingy den. Dirtier and dirtier grow the cobblestones as you go on. Brighter and brighter the huge bunches of red peppers fastened by every window, thicker and thicker on the upper walls and shaky balconies the black melons and yellowish-grey cantaloupes hung up to keep in the high fresh air, each slung in a hitch of yarn to a nail of its own. Less

Book Details

File size150.93 KB
Print pages178
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2009-02-11
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1374971356
Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad...

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