''Simonetta Perkins'' is a 1925

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by the British writer

L. P. Hartley Leslie Poles Hartley (30 December 1895 – 13 December 1972) was an English novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his best-known works are the '' Eustace and Hilda'' trilogy (1944–1947) and '' Th ...

.Wright p.84 A young

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ian woman visiting

Venice Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...

with her overbearing mother quickly tires of her fellow American tourists and begins to fixate on a handsome

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References

Bibliography

* Wright, Adrian. ''Foreign Country: The Life of L.P. Hartley''. I. B. Tauris, 2001. 1925 British novels Novels by L. P. Hartley Novels set in Venice G. P. Putnam's Sons books {{1920s-novel-stub