Excerpt from A Man of AthensEverywhere was the sense of light, golden in the Open spaces, deep, transparently blue in the shadows, vibrating and quivering through the cloudless blue of the sky, and blurring the soft purple of the hills, where their long, sweeping slopes touched the horizon.An open carriage was mounting the slope toward the Acropolis, through the low pines and the clumps of gray green aloes, and Theodora Douka, who had not been in Athens for nine years, leaned eagerly out.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.