William Dean Howells
Italian Journeys
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform June 20, 2015)
We did not know, when we started from home in Venice, on the 8th of November, 1864, that we had taken the longest road to Rome. We thought that of all the proverbial paths to the Eternal City that leading to Padua, and thence through Ferrara and Bologna to Florence, and so down the sea-shore from Leghorn to Civita Vecchia, was the best, the briefest, and the cheapest. Who could have dreamed that this path, so wisely and carefully chosen, would lead us to Genoa, conduct us on shipboard, toss us four dizzy days and nights, and set us down, void, battered, and bewildered, in Naples? Luckily, "The moving accident is not my trade,"
- ISBN
- 1514634481 / 9781514634486
- Pages
- 146
- Weight
- 7.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.3 in.
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