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An Imperative Duty

William Dean Howells

2.7/5 ( ratings)

Olney got back to Boston about the middle of July, and found himself in the social solitude which the summer makes more noticeable in that city than in any other. The business the hard work of life, was going on, galloping on, as it always does in America, but the pleasure of life, which he used to be part of as a younger man, was taking a rest, or if not a rest, then certainly an outing at the sea-shore. He met no one he knew, and he continued his foreign travels in his native place, after an absence so long that it made everything once so familiar bewilderingly strange.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Book Jungle

Release: August 01, 2006

ISBN: 159462335X

ISBN 13: 9781594623356

An Imperative Duty

William Dean Howells

2.7/5 ( ratings)

Olney got back to Boston about the middle of July, and found himself in the social solitude which the summer makes more noticeable in that city than in any other. The business the hard work of life, was going on, galloping on, as it always does in America, but the pleasure of life, which he used to be part of as a younger man, was taking a rest, or if not a rest, then certainly an outing at the sea-shore. He met no one he knew, and he continued his foreign travels in his native place, after an absence so long that it made everything once so familiar bewilderingly strange.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Book Jungle

Release: August 01, 2006

ISBN: 159462335X

ISBN 13: 9781594623356

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