Book Excerpt: ...e had given, --as insolent and as cutting as a lash, --the day he had dared to declare his love!"Now the soft-pedal on slush, eh, Rafaelito?... If you want us to go on being friends, all right, but it's on condition you treat me as a man. Comrades, eh, and nothing more."And with a look at him through those green, luminous, devilish eyes of hers, she had taken her seat at the piano and begun one of her divine songs, as if she thought the magic of her art might raise a barrier between them.On another occasion ...
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Book Excerpt: ...e had given, --as insolent and as cutting as a lash, --the day he had dared to declare his love!"Now the soft-pedal on slush, eh, Rafaelito?... If you want us to go on being friends, all right, but it's on condition you treat me as a man. Comrades, eh, and nothing more."And with a look at him through those green, luminous, devilish eyes of hers, she had taken her seat at the piano and begun one of her divine songs, as if she thought the magic of her art might raise a barrier between them.On another occasion, she was irritable rather; Rafael's appealing eyes, his words of amorous adoration, seemed to provoke her, and she had said with brutal frankness: "Don't waste your breath, please! I am through with love. I know men too well! But even if anyone were to upset me again, it would not be you, Rafaelito dear."And yet he had persisted, insensible to the irony and the scorn of this terrible amigo in skirts, and indifferent as well to the conflicts that his blind passi
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Add this copy of The Torrent to cart. $29.71, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2019 by Outlook Verlag.
Add this copy of The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by E.P. Dutton.
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Near Fine. Second American printing (same month as the first). Translated from the Spanish by Isaac Goldberg and Arthur Livingston. Near fine, lacking the dustwrapper.
Add this copy of The Torrent to cart. $45.81, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2019 by Outlook Verlag.
Add this copy of The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) to cart. $500.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by E.P. Dutton.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. First American edition. Translated from the Spanish by Isaac Goldberg and Arthur Livingston. Contemporary light pencil name, foxing on the foredge, and rubbing on the boards, very good in near fine Dean Cornwell-illustrated dustwrapper. Basis for several films, most notably the 1926 silent version entitled *Torrent* directed by Monta Bell and featuring Ricardo Cortez and Greta Garbo.