
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain”
Variant: She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Source: Work: A Story of Experience
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain”
Variant: She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Source: Work: A Story of Experience
“Often again she is resolved to promise her skill to the unhappy man, then again refuses, and is determined rather to perish with him; and she cries that never will she yield to so base a passion…”
Saepe suas misero promittere destinat artes,
denegat atque una potius decernit in ira
ac neque tam turpi cessuram semet amori
proclamat.
Source: Argonautica, Book VII, Lines 317–320
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014)
Source: Away from Her
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)