Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton - Libros -  - 9798598621073 - 25 de enero de 2021
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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 ....

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Publicado 25 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798598621073
Páginas 106
Dimensiones 127 × 203 × 6 mm   ·   122 g
Lengua Inglés  

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