Roman Fever

Edith Wharton

17,59 €

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Descrição:

In these elegant and devastating tales of deception, desire and social intrigue, Edith Wharton exposes the brittle veneer of civility that masks human ambition and longing.From the sunlit terraces of Rome to the drawing rooms of New York, Whartons characters navigate a world bound by class and convention, yet charged with emotional undercurrents they barely understand. In Roman Fever, two middle-aged women confront the unspoken rivalries that have shadowed their friendship for decades in Mrs. Mansteys View, a lonely widows cherished glimpse of life beyond her window becomes the stage for a quiet tragedy and in After Holbein, the elaborate pretences of two ageing New Yorkers reveal the haunting persistence of vanity and illusion.