The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
(a sad and hopeless story)
"It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it."
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers
"He did not return to his desk, but stood leaning against the mantelshelf. His sleek head, outlined against the drab painted panelling, was a little thrown back, as though - Miss Murchison thought - he were protecting or defying somebody."
by Edith Wharton
(a sad and hopeless story)
"It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it."
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers
"He did not return to his desk, but stood leaning against the mantelshelf. His sleek head, outlined against the drab painted panelling, was a little thrown back, as though - Miss Murchison thought - he were protecting or defying somebody."
1 comment:
They are on my "to read" list!
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