An International Episode

An International Episode

An International Episode Four years agoin 1874two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States....
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Author: James, Henry,1843-1916
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An International Episode

An International Episode

$19.99 $9.99

An International Episode

$19.99 $9.99
Author: James, Henry,1843-1916
Format: eBook
Language: English

An International Episode

Four years agoin 1874two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. Disembarking upon the wharf, they climbed into one of those huge high-hung coaches which convey passengers to the hotels, and with a great deal of bouncing and bumping, took their course through Broadway. The midsummer aspect of New York is not, perhaps, the most favorable one; still, it is not without its picturesque and even brilliant side. Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than the interminable avenue, rich in incongruities, through which our two travelers advancedlooking out on each side of them at the comfortable animation of the sidewalks, the high-colored, heterogeneous architecture, the huge white marble facades glittering in the strong, crude light, and bedizened with gilded lettering, the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, the vendors of cooling fluids, the white trousers and big straw hats of the policemen, the tripping gait of the modish young persons on the pavement, the general brightness, newness, juvenility, both of people and things. The young men had exchanged few observations; but in crossing Union Square, in front of the monument to Washingtonin the very shadow, indeed, projected by the image of the pater patriaeone of them remarked to the other, It seems a rum-looking place. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 210
Author: James, Henry
Release Date: Jul 9, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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