Roman Holidays, and Others
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This unique collection of William Dean Howells' complete travel books has been designed and formatted to the highest digital "Nothing can be fairer to the eye than these "summer isles of Eden" lying all about Venice, far and near. The water forever trembles and changes, with every change of light, from one rainbow glory to another, as with the restless hues of an opal; and even when the splendid tides recede, and go down with the sea, they leave a heritage of beauty to the empurpled mud of the shallows, all strewn with green, disheveled sea-weed. The lagoons have almost as wide a bound as your...
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- ROMAN HOLIDAYS AND OTHERS
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- HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON Copyright, 1908, by HARPER & BROTHERS. Copyright, 1908, by THE SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION. Published October, 1908.
- ROMAN HOLIDAYS AND OTHERS
- I. UP AND DOWN MADEIRA.
- II. TWO UP-TOWN BLOCKS INTO SPAIN
- III. ASHORE AT GENOA
- IV. NAPLES AND HER JOYFUL NOISE
- V. POMPEII REVISITED
- VI. ROMAN HOLIDAYS
- I. HOTELS, PENSIONS, AND APARTMENTS
- II. A PRAISE OF NEW ROME
- III. THE COLOSSEUM AND THE FORUM
- IV. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE SPANISH STEPS
- V. AN EFFORT TO BE HONEST WITH ANTIQUITY
- VI. PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH THE PAST
- VII. CHANCES IN CHURCHES
- VIII. A FEW VILLAS
- IX. DRAMATIC INCIDENTS
- X. SEEING ROME AS ROMANS SEE US
- XI. IN AND ABOUT THE VATICAN
- XII. SUPERFICIAL OBSERVATIONS AND CONJECTURES
- XIII. CASUAL IMPRESSIONS
- XIV. TIVOLI AND FRASCATI
- XV. A FEW REMAINING MOMENTS
- VII. A WEEK AT LEGHORN
- VIII. OVER AT PISA
- IX. BACK AT GENOA
- X. EDEN AFTER THE FALL
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