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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Book Excerpt: ...the quietest of lives. I wish I were a novelist. This old house, with its sanded floors and high wainscots, and its narrow windows looking out upon a cluster of pines that turn themselves into aeolian harps every time the wind blows, would be the place in which to write a summer romance. It should be a story with the odors of the forest and the breath of the sea in it. It should be a novel like one of that Russian fellow's--what's his name?--Tourguenieff, Turguenef, Turgenif, Toorguniff, Turgenjew--nobody knows how to spell him. Yet I wonder if even a Liza or an Alexandra Paulovna could stir the heart of a man who has constant twinges in his leg. I wonder if one of our own Yankee girls of the best type, haughty and spirituelle, would be of any comfort to you in your present deplorable condition. If I thought so, I would hasten down to the Surf House and catch one for you; or, better still, I would find you one over the way. Picture to yourself a large white house just across the road, nearly opp...
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 26 januari 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9798689099125 |
Uitgevers | INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED |
Pagina's | 30 |
Afmetingen | 152 × 229 × 2 mm · 54 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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