1917. With a frontispiece by George W. Hood. Robert Hichens is best known today as the author of the classic supernatural tale How Love Came to Professor Guildea. He was a prolific author, producing volumes of fiction and nonfiction that frequently achieved huge commercial success, such as The Garden of Allah and The Paradine Case. Another of Hichens' best-selling books, In the Wilderness begins: Amedeo Dorini, the hall porter of the Hotel Cavour in Milan, stood on the pavement before the hotel one autumn afternoon in the year 1894, waiting for the omnibus, which had gone to the station, and which was now due to return, bearing-Amedeo hoped-a load of generously inclined travelers. During the years of his not unpleasant servitude Amedeo had become a student of human nature. He had learnt to judge shrewdly and soundly, to sum up quickly, to deliver verdicts which were not unjust. And now, as he saw the omnibus, with its two fat brown horses, coming slowly along by the cab rank, and turning into the Piazza that is presided over by Cavour's statue, he prepared almost mechanically to measure and weigh evidence, to criticize and come to a conclusion. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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English novelist, journalist and music critic with 66 books to his name. Hichens' most popular work is The Green Carnation (1894). His travels all over the world provided him with rich and diverse material for his writings. This fact is apparent from his novels The Garden of Allah (1904) and Bella Donna (1909), both of which are set in North Africa. Hichens' other works include In the Wilderness, The Spell of Egypt, A Spirit in Prison, and The Dweller on the Threshold.
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AMEDEO DORINI, the hall porter of the Hotel Cavour in Milan, stood on the pavement before the hotel one autumn afternoon in the year 1894, waiting for the omnibus, which had gone to the station, and which was now due to return, bearing - Amedeo hoped - a load of generously inclined travelers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
divina volontate, unwise life, holiday tutor, cor meum vigilat, distressed eyes, dark entry, pale yellow hair, wild mind, highest terrace Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Ingleton, Dion Leith, Father Robertson, Canon Wilton, Bruce Evelin, South Africa, Little Cloisters, Cynthia Clarke, Little Market Street, Sir Carey, Beadon Clarke, Hadi Bey, Unknown God, Villa Hafiz, Golden Horn, Grande Rue, Santa Sophia, Sir John, Aristide Dumeny, Doctor Mayson, Green Court, Guy Daventry, British Embassy, Rosamund Leith, Cyril Vane New!
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AMEDEO DORINI, the hall porter of the Hotel Cavour in Milan, stood on the pavement before the hotel one autumn afternoon in the year 1894, waiting for the omnibus, which had gone to the station, and which was now due to return, bearing - Amedeo hoped - a load of generously inclined travelers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
divina volontate, unwise life, holiday tutor, cor meum vigilat, distressed eyes, dark entry, pale yellow hair, wild mind, highest terrace Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Ingleton, Dion Leith, Father Robertson, Canon Wilton, Bruce Evelin, South Africa, Little Cloisters, Cynthia Clarke, Little Market Street, Sir Carey, Beadon Clarke, Hadi Bey, Unknown God, Villa Hafiz, Golden Horn, Grande Rue, Santa Sophia, Sir John, Aristide Dumeny, Doctor Mayson, Green Court, Guy Daventry, British Embassy, Rosamund Leith, Cyril Vane New!
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- King Henry V (New Warwick Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 118
- Don Juan (Penguin Classics) by Lord George Gordon Byron on page 62
- Don Juan (The English poets) by Lord George Gordon Byron on page 62
- The Dream of Gerontius by John Henry Newman on page 13
- Garden of Allah, The by Robert Hichens in Front Matter
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