The House That Shadows Built (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
00023
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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CHAPTER II THE ORPHAN OF RICSE The town of Ricse lies on the borders of the Tokay wine district in Hungary. It has — and has had since the dawn of its recorded history — less than two thousand inhabitants. It does not differ in essentials from a myriad of other little farming centres scattered over the face of Europe. There is a main street of settled graystone buildings; a square with a town hall; a fringe of small houses with flagged and scrubbed front steps. Land is precious and the houses huddle so close together that one seems to be living in a community building with every other inhabitant. The farms, checkerboarded between low stone walls, come up to the very pavements. As generally throughout Europe, the farmers lodge in town and go forth to their cultivating on foot or on the backs of their work horses. Life is rooted in the soil. The banker deals in lands; and even the storekeepers till their little inherited patches of five or ten acres. To this class of small tradesmen belonged the Zukors. As far back as exact family history ran, they had owned a succession of humble shops at Ricse. They had been Hungarians for so many generations that they, like the 9