Doone 1869 Novel Crossword Novels & Stories

Perhaps it was simply that the building itself was better than he had known how to imagine, and the unnamed things were the evidence of that betterness. He closed the journal. He went to the sitting room. Don was on the sofa with his book—a new one, the fifth in the Greece preparation, a novel set in Athens in the 1940s that he had said he was reading for the texture of the period rather than the plot. The novel was smaller than the other books, thinner, the kind of book that could be read in a day if you pushed. Don was not pushing. He was reading slowly, the way he read everything, giving each sentence the attention it deserved.