Crucial Instances
Book Excerpt: ...days in the Piazza. She was one, at any rate, that needed no outlandish finery to beautify her; whatever dress she wore became her as feathers fit the bird; and her hair didn't get its color by bleaching on the housetop. It glittered of itself like the threads in an Easter chasuble, and her skin was whiter than fine wheaten bread and her mouth as sweet as a ripe fig...."Well, sir, you could no more keep them apart than the bees and the lavender. They were always together, singing, bowling, playing cup and ball, walking in the gardens, visiting the aviaries and petting her grace's trick-dogs and monkeys. The Duchess was as gay as a foal, always playing pranks and laughing, tricking out her animals like comedians, disguising herself as a peasant or a nun (you should have seen her one day pass herself off to the chaplain as a mendicant sister), or teaching the lads and girls of the vineyards to dance and sing madrigals together. The Cavaliere had a singular ingenuity in planning such entertainments and theClose...
yazar | Edith Wharton |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 0.79 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 15 Eylül 2020 |
5 Ocak 2017 3 Ocak 2017 Jack London 4 Ocak 2017 F Scott Fitzgerald Kolektif B M Bower G. A. Henty 28 Şubat 2018 15,2 x 0,7 x 22,9 cm 15,2 x 0,6 x 22,9 cm 1 x 13,5 x 19,5 cm 19,5 x 1 x 13,5 cm 1 x 13,5 x 21 cm 15 Eylül 2020 19,5 x 13,5 cm H. G. Wells 1 Ocak 2018
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yazar | Edith Wharton |
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isbn 13 | 979-8677548413 |
Yayımcı | Independently Published |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 0.79 x 22.86 cm |
DE OLDUĞU GİBİ | B08J5HLXVL |
Tarafından yayınlandı Crucial Instances | 15 Eylül 2020 |