Main Street - Sinclair Lewis - Grāmatas -  - 9798689098999 - 2021. gada 30. janvāris
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Main Street

Book Excerpt: ...w plan. She saw herself persuading children to read charming fairy tales, helping young men to find books on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for newspapers--the light of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, reading a paper to an association of distinguished scholars. VThe last faculty reception before commencement. In five days they would be in the cyclone of final examinations. The house of the president had been massed with palms suggestive of polite undertaking parlors, and in the library, a ten-foot room with a globe and the portraits of Whittier and Martha Washington, the student orchestra was playing "Carmen" and "Madame Butterfly." Carol was dizzy with music and the emotions of parting. She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-shaded electric globes as an opaline haze, and the eye-glassed faculty as Olympians. She was melancholy at sight of the mousey girls with whom she had "always intended to get acquainted," an...

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Izlaists 2021. gada 30. janvāris
ISBN13 9798689098999
Lapas 416
Izmēri 152 × 229 × 22 mm   ·   553 g
Valoda Angļu  

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