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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Antony, a writer, hiswife Beatrice and their young daughter live a quiet but loving life secretedaway in a cottage in a green, woods-filled valley. Antony has a small chaletwithin the woods near their cottage where he goes to write.On a rare trip to London,while wandering in Covent Garden, Antony stumbles across a sculptor's shopnestled between the stalls. Inside are many busts and heads, but one item inparticular commands his attention almost immediately. It is a death-mask whichbears an extraordinary resemblance to Beatrice, uncannily so. The proprietortells him that the mask was taken from a young woman who threw herself into theSeine. Due to the likeness, Antony cannot resist the mask, and brings it home.But the image strikesfear into Beatrice, because of its similarity to herself, and also because shecan see something new in Antony as he gazes at it fascinatedly. There issomething obsessive in his intrigue with the mask. She insists that it is notkept in the house, so Antony takes it to his writing chalet. Before long, shesenses that Antony's attention is shifting permanently from herself and theirdaughter to the personality that he now believes inhabits the image. Thepersonality has a name, Silencieux, and has extraordinary powers ofinspiration; his writing improves prodigiously. Silencieux seems to him alive:she is the spirit of beauty, and a muse, but also commandingly cruel. The ordinaryworld drops away. Here begins a cataclysmic series of events, where his familywrestle fatally with Antony's new obsession. This magnificent tragicfable, first published in 1900, traces a life-and-death fight between theforces of human love and the spellbinding supernatural - in transfixing andpoetic prose. Its commentary on the rivalry in an artist's mind between art andlife, the artifices of beauty and the warmth of genuine care, is timeless. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Antony, a writer, hiswife Beatrice and their young daughter live a quiet but loving life secretedaway in a cottage in a green, woods-filled valley. Antony has a small chaletwithin the woods near their cottage where he goes to write.On a rare trip to London,while wandering in Covent Garden, Antony stumbles across a sculptor's shopnestled between the stalls. Inside are many busts and heads, but one item inparticular commands his attention almost immediately. It is a death-mask whichbears an extraordinary resemblance to Beatrice, uncannily so. The proprietortells him that the mask was taken from a young woman who threw herself into theSeine. Due to the likeness, Antony cannot resist the mask, and brings it home.But the image strikesfear into Beatrice, because of its similarity to herself, and also because shecan see something new in Antony as he gazes at it fascinatedly. There issomething obsessive in his intrigue with the mask. She insists that it is notkept in the house, so Antony takes it to his writing chalet. Before long, shesenses that Antony's attention is shifting permanently from herself and theirdaughter to the personality that he now believes inhabits the image. Thepersonality has a name, Silencieux, and has extraordinary powers ofinspiration; his writing improves prodigiously. Silencieux seems to him alive:she is the spirit of beauty, and a muse, but also commandingly cruel. The ordinaryworld drops away. Here begins a cataclysmic series of events, where his familywrestle fatally with Antony's new obsession. This magnificent tragicfable, first published in 1900, traces a life-and-death fight between theforces of human love and the spellbinding supernatural - in transfixing andpoetic prose. Its commentary on the rivalry in an artist's mind between art andlife, the artifices of beauty and the warmth of genuine care, is timeless. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Antony, a writer, hiswife Beatrice and their young daughter live a quiet but loving life secretedaway in a cottage in a green, woods-filled valley. Antony has a small chaletwithin the woods near their cottage where he goes to write.On a rare trip to London,while wandering in Covent Garden, Antony stumbles across a sculptor's shopnestled between the stalls. Inside are many busts and heads, but one item inparticular commands his attention almost immediately. It is a death-mask whichbears an extraordinary resemblance to Beatrice, uncannily so. The proprietortells him that the mask was taken from a young woman who threw herself into theSeine. Due to the likeness, Antony cannot resist the mask, and brings it home.But the image strikesfear into Beatrice, because of its similarity to herself, and also because shecan see something new in Antony as he gazes at it fascinatedly. There issomething obsessive in his intrigue with the mask. She insists that it is notkept in the house, so Antony takes it to his writing chalet. Before long, shesenses that Antony's attention is shifting permanently from herself and theirdaughter to the personality that he now believes inhabits the image. Thepersonality has a name, Silencieux, and has extraordinary powers ofinspiration; his writing improves prodigiously. Silencieux seems to him alive:she is the spirit of beauty, and a muse, but also commandingly cruel. The ordinaryworld drops away. Here begins a cataclysmic series of events, where his familywrestle fatally with Antony's new obsession. This magnificent tragicfable, first published in 1900, traces a life-and-death fight between theforces of human love and the spellbinding supernatural - in transfixing andpoetic prose. Its commentary on the rivalry in an artist's mind between art andlife, the artifices of beauty and the warmth of genuine care, is timeless. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. The Worshipper of the Image | Richard Le Gallienne | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | Michael Walmer | EAN 9781763870000 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.