Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton - Bücher - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781976242519 - 9. Oktober 2017
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Crucial Instances

Edith Wharton

Crucial Instances

Have you ever questioned the long shuttered front of an old Italian house, that motionless mask, smooth, mute, equivocal as the face of a priest behind which buzz the secrets of the confessional? Other houses declare the activities they shelter; they are the clear expressive cuticle of a life flowing close to the surface; but the old palace in its narrow street, the villa on its cypress-hooded hill, are as impenetrable as death. The tall windows are like blind eyes, the great door is a shut mouth. Inside there may be sunshine, the scent of myrtles, and a pulse of life through all the arteries of the huge frame; or a mortal solitude, where bats lodge in the disjointed stones and the keys rust in unused doors....

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 9. Oktober 2017
ISBN13 9781976242519
Verlag Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Seitenanzahl 154
Maße 152 × 229 × 8 mm   ·   213 g
Sprache Englisch  

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