Excerpt from The Circle of the Day: A Novel The sunlight fell across the mahogany table in the dining room. The outsize slice of sunshine that lighted the Millets' apartment was one of the many pleasant features of living on East Fifty-seventh Street. They could see the East River only by craning out of the window, but it was good to feel that it was there. This morning a wind, freshened by playing on its surface, sent the curtains puffing out into soft bulges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.