Simonetta Perkins

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Simonetta Perkins
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Author L.P. Hartley
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
Publisher Putnam
Publication date
1925
Media typePrint

Simonetta Perkins is a 1925 novella by the British writer L. P. Hartley. [1] A young Bostonian woman visiting Venice with her overbearing mother quickly tires of her fellow American tourists and begins to fixate on a handsome gondolier.

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References

  1. Wright p.84

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