Arthur Henry Adams
Grocer Greatheart: A Tropical Romance
Paperback
(Forgotten Books Jan. 19, 2018)
Excerpt from Grocer Greatheart: A Tropical RomanceAt dinner, the vacant Chairs were filled by men new shaven and women who had summoned up their courage to drag from their trunks their new dinner dresses; and everybody evinced a tenta tive interest in food. That evening there was music in the social hall, and four men sat down at a table in the card room to play bridge all the way to China.Next day deck games were in full swing, and little groups, after a game, stayed Chatting, each atom summing up the other atoms. The drops of Life on the ship's deck had begun to run together. Out of the original Chaos Life had been created. Society had formed itself into tribes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
- ISBN
- 1330987802 / 9781330987803
- Pages
- 356
- Weight
- 19.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.7
in.