Physical description

Hard cover book. Black Roses
Author: Francis Brett Young
Publisher: The Windmill Press
Date: 1929
Further Information: Blue Cloth hardcover, red spine with no lettering visible and a gilt patterning to front cover. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with the typed text PAT FIC YOU
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service

Summary

The story follows a painter, Paul Ritchie, who is on a Mediterranean cruise when his ship stops at Naples. This stirs memories of years earlier, when he lived there and found friendship with a fellow artist and love with their landlady. All three were struck down in a cholera epidemic, and only Ritchie survived. Without setting foot in the city, he finally banishes the ghosts that have haunted him. The setting reflects the time Young spent on Capri during the 1920s.