The Methods of Mr. Ames - Couverture rigide

Carrel, Frederic

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1355197627 ISBN 13 : 9781355197621

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

His boyhood had been passed in the clement atmosphere of Florence, and when he had left the University of Rome, equipped with the knowledge which it had to give, he had drifted into art, for which he had an aptitude. He was thinking of devoting himself to it entirely when two events, one following hard upon the other, had turned his footsteps towards England. Throughout their exile, while they were living in a state approaching want, his mother had maintained that one day they would be affluent, and that all the stings of poverty would be removed. But he had scarcely heeded her, thinking that the contingency on which she based her hopes was too remote to be worth considering. And yet that contingency, it seemed, had turned into a reality. A railway accident had killed a father and a son, and two days after his mothers death he had been made aware that he was the next-of-kin. At first he had scarcely credited the news, thinking his uncle in A ustralia, from whom he never heard, almost mythical. But the letters from the solicitors were so definite and categorical, that at length he had resolved to come. The life of straitened means which he had led in Florence, the limitations of desire which it imposed, the humiliations which he had suffered, and his temperamental love of elegance, all made him realise how great a change in the scope of his existence would come about if the fortune, as to which the lawyers wrote, were his. Society, which had frowned on him so long, would smile upon him now, perhaps.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1355197627
• ISBN 13: 9781355197621
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 314
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