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- Išsiųsime per 12–18 d.d.
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- Autorius: Edith Wharton
- Leidėjas: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Metai: 2014
- Puslapiai: 80
- ISBN-10: 1496141520
- ISBN-13: 9781496141521
- Formatas: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
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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....
- Autorius: Edith Wharton
- Leidėjas: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Metai: 2014
- Puslapiai: 80
- ISBN-10: 1496141520
- ISBN-13: 9781496141521
- Formatas: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
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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