An Ideal Husband
by Wilde, Oscar
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- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0140287957
- ISBN 13
- 9780140287950
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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From the book:The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry - representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher- that is stretched on the staircase wall. On the right is the entrance to the music-room. The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard. The entrance on the left leads to other reception-rooms. MRS. MARCHMONT and LADY BASIL-DON, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa. They are types of exquisite fragility. Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm. Watteau would have loved to paint them.
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- G0140287957I5N00
- Title
- An Ideal Husband
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 4
- ISBN 10
- 0140287957
- ISBN 13
- 9780140287950
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Place of Publication
- E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1999
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