Vanitas Polite Stories, Including the Hitherto Unpublished Story Entitled a Frivolous Conversion (Classic Reprint)
Title | Vanitas Polite Stories, Including the Hitherto Unpublished Story Entitled a Frivolous Conversion (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Vernon Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2015-07-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781330550502 |
Excerpt from Vanitas Polite Stories, Including the Hitherto Unpublished Story Entitled a Frivolous Conversion We had a conversation once, walking on your terrace, with the wind-rippled olives above and the quietly nodding cypress tufts below - about such writings as you chose to compare with carved cherry-stones. We disagreed, for it seemed to me that the world needed cherry-stone necklaces as much as anything else; and that the only pity was that most of its inhabitants could not afford such toys, and the rest despised them because they were made of such very cheap material. Still, lest you should wonder at my sending such things to you, I write to declare that my three little tales, whatever they be, are not carved cherry-stones. For round these sketches of frivolous women, there have gathered some of the least frivolous thoughts, heaven knows, that have ever come into my head; or rather, such thoughts have condensed and taken body in these stories. Indeed, how can one look from outside on the great waste of precious things, delicate discernment, quick feeling and sometimes stoical fortitude, involved in frivolous life, without a sense of sadness and indignation? Or what satisfaction could its portrayal afford, save for the chance that such pictures might mirror some astonished and abashed creature; or show to men and women who toil and think that idleness, and callousness, and much that must seem to them sheer wickedness, is less a fault than a misfortune? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Title | Vanitas; Polite Stories, Including the Hitherto Unpublished Story Entitled a Frivolous Conversion PDF eBook |
Author | HardPress |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2013-06 |
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ISBN | 9781314553048 |
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