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I Say No

Wilkie Collins

Publisher: Ktoczyta.pl

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Summary

This is a typical English Victorian novel. The action takes place in a women’s closed boarding house, the main characters are girls, one of them will turn out to be of aristocratic origin, the other will have a passionate affair with an unrecognized artist.. in a word, everything we expect from Victorian novels is passion, moralizing, trials, censure of vices and exaltation of virtues.
Available since: 03/08/2022.
Print length: 396 pages.

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