Sleeping Fires Contributor(s): Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn (Author), 1st World Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421801337 ISBN-13: 9781421801339 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.67 lbs) 236 pages |
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Publisher Description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There was no Burlingame in the Sixties, the Western Addition was a desert of sand dunes and the goats gambolled through the rocky gulches of Nob Hill. But San Francisco had its Rincon Hill and South Park, Howard and Fulsom and Harrison Streets, coldly aloof from the tumultuous hot heart of the City north of Market Street. In this residence section the sidewalks were also wooden and uneven and the streets muddy in winter and dusty in summer, but the houses, some of which had "come round the Horn," were large, simple, and stately. Those on the three long streets had deep gardens before them, with willow trees and oaks above the flower beds, quaint ugly statues, and fountains that were sometimes dry. The narrower houses of South Park crowded one another about the oval enclosure and their common garden was the smaller oval of green and roses. |