Sanctuary - Edith Wharton - Knihy - Independently Published - 9798720003258 - 16. apríl 2021
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Sanctuary

Book Excerpt: ...rvey of life had always been marked by the tendency to seek out ultimate relations, to extend her researches to the limit of her imaginative experience. But hitherto she had been like some young captive brought up in a windowless palace whose painted walls she takes for the actual world. Now the palace had been shaken to its base, and through a cleft in the walls she looked out upon life. For the first moment all was indistinguishable blackness; then she began to detect vague shapes and confused gestures in the depths. There were people below there, men like Denis, girls like herself--for under the unlikeness she felt the strange affinity--all struggling in that awful coil of moral darkness, with agonized hands reaching up for rescue. Her heart shrank from the horror of it, and then, in a passion of pity, drew back to the edge of the abyss. Suddenly her eyes turned toward Denis. His face was grave, but less disturbed. And men knew about these things! They carried this abyss in their bosoms, and went about smi..

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Vydané 16. apríl 2021
ISBN13 9798720003258
Vydavatelia Independently Published
Strany 144
Rozmery 127 × 203 × 8 mm   ·   149 g
Jazyk Angličtina  

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