Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton - 图书 - Independently Published - 9798724016971 - 2021年3月21日
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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....

介质类型 图书     Paperback Book   (平装胶订图书)
已发行 2021年3月21日
ISBN13 9798724016971
出版商 Independently Published
页数 114
商品尺寸 127 × 203 × 7 mm   ·   131 g
语言 英语  

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