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  Simonetta Perkins (Hesperus Classics) (Paperback) By (author) L.P. Hartley, Foreword by Margaret Drabble

  

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  Short Description for Simonetta PerkinsConsidered by Hartley to be his finest work, 'Simonetta Perkins' is a brilliantly observed tale of desire and guilt. Set against a glorious Venetian backdrop, it explores the very nature of physical temptation, to create a complex, psychological work, deeply reminiscent of Henry James.
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  • Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
  • Published: 28 May 2004
  • Format: Paperback 112 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9781843910916 ISBN 10: 1843910918
  • Sales rank: 177,513

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• Visiting Venice with her mother, Bostonian ingenue Lavinia Johnstone soon tires of their fellow American tourists and of her mother's unstinting attempts to find her a husband. Instead, she chooses to spend her time alone, and her gaze soon falls on a local gondolier. Frustrated that his services are in such demand, she creates a fantasy world in which they are together - but as her imagination takes hold, the line between her two 'worlds' becomes increasingly blurred.