| The Awkward Age Contributor(s): James, Henry, Jr. (Author), Henry James (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421826178 ISBN-13: 9781421826172 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1070 |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.78 lbs) 532 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Save when it happened to rain Vanderbank always walked home, but he usually took a hansom when the rain was moderate and adopted the preference of the philosopher when it was heavy. On this occasion he therefore recognised as the servant opened the door a congruity between the weather and the "four-wheeler" that, in the empty street, under the glazed radiance, waited and trickled and blackly glittered. The butler mentioned it as on such a wild night the only thing they could get, and Vanderbank, having replied that it was exactly what would do best, prepared in the doorway to put up his umbrella and dash down to it. At this moment he heard his name pronounced from behind and on turning found himself joined by the elderly fellow guest with whom he had talked after dinner and about whom later on upstairs he had sounded his hostess. It was at present a clear question of how this amiable, this apparently unassertive person should get home-of the possibility of the other cab for which even now one of the footmen, with a whistle to his lips, craned out his head and listened through the storm. Mr. Longdon wondered to Vanderbank if their course might by any chance be the same; which led our young friend immediately to express a readiness to see him safely in any direction that should accommodate him. |