| Crucial Instances Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1976242517 ISBN-13: 9781976242519 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.47 lbs) 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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.... |