Babylon Volume 3
Grant Allen
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Description
Babylon is a novel in three volumes by Grant Allen, writing as Cecil Power. The hosted text is volume three, issued at London in eighteen eighty five with twelve pictures by P Macnab. Allen is billed as author of Philistia and Strange Stories. The volume opens deep in the tale, at chapter twenty nine.
That chapter gives a view of Rome through the eyes of Hiram Winthrop. The modern city crouches, in his telling, within its huge old walls. A broad skirt of empty hillocks and stunted vineyards rings the shrunken town. Along a dull muddy river the real city huddles under the ruins of a nobler age. Dingy tile roofed houses crowd into a maze of alleys. Beggars fill the streets in his harsh sketch.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Grant Allen |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 271 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |