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Dec 07, 2019
Pamela
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Lily Bart is 29 at the start of this novel, born and educated in the upper reaches of New York society but impoverished by her late father's bankruptcy, beautiful and charming but still searching for a marriage that will protect her position and allow her the luxurious lifestyle she craves. As the novel progresses, we see how Lily is torn between her desire for wealth and status and her inherent distaste for the morally ambivalent manoeuvres which society deems necessary for her to achieve her a
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Nidhi Kumari
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