The Corner That Held Them
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.94
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here In memory of the wife who had once …
Want to Read $ 11.99"And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I shall burn out and another candle will be fixed in my stead."-Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them
"And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I shall burn out and another candle will be fixed in my stead."-Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them
"And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I shall burn out and another candle will be fixed in my stead."-Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them
"And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I shall burn out and another candle will be fixed in my stead."-Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them
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6. The Corner That Held Them
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.94
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
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"And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I sha…"-Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them
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