Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton - Libros -  - 9798653439551 - 12 de junio de 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...

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Publicado 12 de junio de 2020
ISBN13 9798653439551
Páginas 96
Dimensiones 216 × 280 × 5 mm   ·   244 g
Lengua Inglés  

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