Alexander's bridge

By Willa Cather

Subjects: PRO Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy), Civil engineers, Fiction, general, Boston (mass.), fiction, London (england), fiction, CHR 1997, Married people in fiction, Mistresses in fiction, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy), Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Mistresses, Design and construction, Husbands, Midlife crisis, Married life, Married people, United states, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction, Married men, Civil engineers in fiction, Classic Literature, Bridges in fiction, Bridges

Description: Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had lived there as a student, but for twenty years and more, since he had been Professor of Philosophy in a Western university, he had seldom come East except to take a steamer for some foreign port. Wilson was standing quite still, contemplating with a whimsical smile the slanting street, with its worn paving, its irregular, gravely colored houses, and the row of naked trees on which the thin sunlight was still shining.