Virtuous Wives (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Johnson, Owen) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Virtuous Wives New York is a city always on the march. It grows as no other city has grown, devouring its past. The great capitals of the world - London, Paris, Rome - present the phenomenon of a stone dropped into a surface of water. The expanding circles of population, widening and receding, leave a central calm the calm of history, of traditions, of cherished memories, the solidifying calm of monumented generations. But New York is like an up turned bottle, constantly charged with champagne through its narrow neck, and this restless, increasing pressure, driving from the Battery to Central Park, has not only in one generation consumed its ancient residential area and dispersed its once conservative landmarks but created a new and feverish society. As late as 1884, when Delmonico´s, on Madison Square, was the northern advance of public restaurants, and Wallack´s at Thirtieth Street, suffered from its isolation in the theatrical district, New York, from Washington Square to the Grand Central Station, between the iron limits of the elevated railways, was one unvexed stretch of brownstone fronts with high descending steps, which gave to the vistas of its streets the aspect of two brown-clad regiments marching into each other. Each brownstone front was a home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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