Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton - Libros - Independently Published - 9798724016971 - 21 de marzo de 2021
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Crucial Instances

HAVE you ever questioned the long shuttered front of an old Italian house, thatmotionless mask, smooth, mute, equivocal as the face of a priest behind which buzzthe 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 theold palace in its narrow street, the villa on its cypress-hooded hill, are asimpenetrable as death. The tall windows are like blind eyes, the great door is a shutmouth. 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 inthe disjointed stones and the keys rust in unused doors....

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Publicado 21 de marzo de 2021
ISBN13 9798724016971
Editores Independently Published
Páginas 114
Dimensiones 127 × 203 × 7 mm   ·   131 g
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