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The valley of decision : a novel

Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine, whose remote connection with the reigning line of Pianura did not preserve him from wearing torn clothes and eating black bread and beans out of an earthen bowl on the kitchen doorstep. "Go ask your mother for new clothes!" Filomena would snap at him, when his toes came through his shoes and the rents in his jacket-sleeves had spread beyond darning ...

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  • "Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine, whose remote connection with the reigning line of Pianura did not preserve him from wearing torn clothes and eating black bread and beans out of an earthen bowl on the kitchen doorstep. "Go ask your mother for new clothes!" Filomena would snap at him, when his toes came through his shoes and the rents in his jacket-sleeves had spread beyond darning ..."@en
  • "Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine, whose remote connection with the reigning line of Pianura did not preserve him from wearing torn clothes and eating black bread and beans out of an earthen bowl on the kitchen doorstep. "Go ask your mother for new clothes!" Filomena would snap at him, when his toes came through his shoes and the rents in his jacket-sleeves had spread beyond darning. "These you are wearing are my Giannozzo's, as you well know, and every rag on your back is mine, if there were any law for poor folk, f."@en
  • "Ms. Wharton's first novel, The Valley of Decision is a historical romance of eighteenth-century Italy."@en
  • "Historical novel of eighteenth century Italy, specifically the rise to power of Odo Valsecca during the intellectual and political tumult which preceded the French Revolution."@en
  • "The heir-presumptive of a north Italian Duchy tries to establish a constitution."
  • "Edith Wharton's first novel chronicles the rise to power of Odo Valsecca, a young man who inherits a dukedom during the tumult of the French Revolution. Forced to choose between his liberal views and his family's feudal tradition, his future is even more complicated by his love for his sweetheart Fulvia, a kidnapping, and a daring escape by sea."@en
  • "This novel is set in eighteenth-century Italy and focuses on the rise and conflicts of Odo Valsecca, who deals with virtually every social class of the period. Here Wharton pits folks inspired by the antireligious thoughts of Rousseau and Voltaire against the orthodox leaders of the day. This is a long and complex novel."@en

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  • "Historical fiction"
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