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This English comedy is from the 1700s and takes place in London. The book is short but the reading was not easy, the machinations hatched by the protagonists chase each other, overlap and cancel each other out, with a rather complicated mechanism to follow. The themes remained valid for at least another 250 years (arranged marriages, dowries, husband-wife-lover relationships) and, apart from the references to powdered wigs and plastering make-up (few, in truth), it wouldn't seem like such an old
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Dec 30, 2019
Christine
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