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The Real Thing and Other Tales

Henry James

Publisher: Greenbooks Editore

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The narrator, an unnamed illustrator and aspiring painter, hires a faded genteel couple, the Monarchs, as models, after they have lost most of their money and must find some line of work. They are the "real thing" in that they perfectly represent the aristocratic type, but they prove inflexible for the painter's work.
Available since: 07/24/2021.

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