The Valley of Decision - Edith Wharton - Books - Independently Published - 9798700949361 - February 6, 2021
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The Valley of Decision

It was very still in the small neglected chapel. The noises of the farm came faintly through closed doors-voices shouting at the oxen in the lower fields, the querulous bark of the old house-dog, and Filomena's angry calls to the little white-faced foundling in the kitchen. The February day was closing, and a ray of sunshine, slanting through a slit in the chapel wall, brought out the vision of a pale haloed head floating against the dusky background of the chancel like a water-lily on its leaf. The face was that of the saint of Assisi-a sunken ravaged countenance, lit with an ecstasy of suffering that seemed not so much to reflect the anguish of the Christ at whose feet the saint knelt, as the mute pain of all poor down-trodden folk on earth.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 6, 2021
ISBN13 9798700949361
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 240
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 14 mm   ·   263 g
Language English  

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