The Face

E.F. Benson

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The Face by E. F. Benson is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Hester Ward, sitting by the open window on this hot afternoon in June, began seriously to argue with herself about the cloud of foreboding and depression which had encompassed her all day, and, very sensibly, she enumerated to herself the manifold causes for happiness in the fortunate circumstances This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

Disponibile da: 06/06/2026.

Lunghezza di stampa: 19 pagine.

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