Roman Fountain by Hugh Walpole (HQ440)

Published 1940: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece

Original red cloth with black block gilt titles on the spine. 292 clean and bright pages, previous owners signature on the first free page dated, 1941. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time consistent with age. (HQ440)

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Part autobiography and part history, written upon the author's return from Rome in the early Spring of 1939 where he had gone to write of the funeral of Pope Pius XI and the selection of his successor. His object is the show that immediate history, however disturbing and horrible, does not affect at all the life of the spirit.

Walpole, on vacation falls in love with the scenery of Rome and finds a secluded fountain by chance. He returns hoping to rediscover the fountain along with the optimism of his youth.—Katlego

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (March 13, 1884 - June 1, 1941) was a British Novelist during the first half of the Twentieth Century. He was one of the most popular authors of his time, until his literary reputation was destroyed by Somerset Maugham. Google Books...