Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton - Boeken -  - 9798693624320 - 16 oktober 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 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... .

Media Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 16 oktober 2020
ISBN13 9798693624320
Pagina's 142
Afmetingen 140 × 216 × 8 mm   ·   172 g
Taal en grammatica Engels  

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