Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton - Boeken -  - 9798653439551 - 12 juni 2020
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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 theconfessional? Other houses declare the activities they shelter; they are the clear expressivecuticle of a life flowing close to the surface; but the old palace in its narrow street, the villa on itscypress-hooded hill, are as impenetrable as death. The tall windows are like blind eyes, the greatdoor is a shut mouth. Inside there may be sunshine, the scent of myrtles, and a pulse of lifethrough all the arteries of the huge frame; or a mortal solitude, where bats lodge in the disjointedstones and the keys rust in unused doors...

Media Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 12 juni 2020
ISBN13 9798653439551
Pagina's 96
Afmetingen 216 × 280 × 5 mm   ·   244 g
Taal en grammatica Engels  

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