Just Around the Corner

By Fannie Hurst

IN the Knockerbeck Hotel there are various parlors; Pompeian rooms lined in marble and pillared in chaste fluted columns; Louis Quinze corners, gold-leafed and pink-brocaded, principally furnished with a spindly-legged Vernis-Martin cabinet and a large French clock in the form of a celestial sphere surmounted by a gold cupid. There are high-ceilinged rendezvous rooms, with six arm and two straight chairs chased after the manner of Gouthi re, and a series of small inlaid writing-desks, generously equipped for an avidious public to whom the crest-embossed stationery of a four-dollar-a-day-up hotel suggests long-forgotten friends back home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514693461
• ISBN13: 9781514693469
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"