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Three or four stars? Decisions, decisions, decisions - however, I settled for three stars on account of the melodramatic, borderline kitsch narrative...
Going through public domain books that I've omitted to read hitherto I never want to a) read about death by "consumption" or b) fail to grasp those parts of the story that depend upon the elaborate rules of etiquette from last century.
And I thank god that my skills in the art of Small Talk will never be scrutinized by Edith Wharton, Henry James ...more
Going through public domain books that I've omitted to read hitherto I never want to a) read about death by "consumption" or b) fail to grasp those parts of the story that depend upon the elaborate rules of etiquette from last century.
And I thank god that my skills in the art of Small Talk will never be scrutinized by Edith Wharton, Henry James ...more
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