The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life

by Anna Katharine Green

Book Overview

A wind was blowing through the city. Not a gentle and balmy zephyr, stirring the locks on gentle ladies' foreheads and rustling the curtains in elegant boudoirs, but a chill and bitter gale that rushed with a swoop through narrow alleys and forsaken courtyards, biting the cheeks of the few solitary wanderers that still lingered abroad in the darkened streets. In front of a cathedral that reared its lofty steeple in the midst of the squalid houses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515255719
• ISBN13: 9781515255710
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.7"