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Caesar's Wife - A Comedy in Three Acts - cover

Caesar's Wife - A Comedy in Three Acts

William Somerset Maugham

Publisher: Interactive Media

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Summary

The morning-room in the Consular Agent's house at Cairo. The windows are Arabic in character and so are the architraves of the doors, but otherwise it is an English room, airy and spacious. The furniture is lacquer and Chippendale, there are cool chintzes on the chairs and sofas, cut roses in glass vases, and growing azaleas in pots; but here and there an Eastern antiquity, a helmet and a coat of mail, a piece of woodwork, reminds one of the Mussulman conquest of Egypt; while an ancient god in porphyry, graven images in blue pottery, blue bowls, recall an older civilisation still.
Available since: 03/17/2021.
Print length: 172 pages.

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