The Vintage - Softcover

Benson, E.F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1503267075 ISBN 13: 9781503267077

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1898

Synopsis

Nauplia, huddled together on the edge of its glittering bay, and grilled beneath the hot stress of the midsummer noon, stood silent as a city of the dead. Down the middle of the main street, leading up from the quay to the square, lay a scorching ribbon of sunshine, and the narrow strips of shadow, sharp cut and blue, spoke of the South. Along one side of the square ran the barracks of the Turkish garrison of occupation, two-storied buildings of brown stone, solid but airless, and faced with a line of arcade. These contained the three companies of men who were stationed in the town itself, less fortunate in this oven of heat than the main part of the garrison who held the airier fortress of Palamede behind, overlooking the plain from a height of five hundred feet.

About this title

About the Author:

E. F. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 1898
• ISBN 10: 1503267075
• ISBN 13: 9781503267077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252