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Landed Gentry - A Comedy in Four Acts - cover

Landed Gentry - A Comedy in Four Acts

William Somerset Maugham

Publisher: Interactive Media

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Summary

The drawing-room at Kenyon-Fulton. It is a handsome apartment with large windows, reaching to the ground. On the walls are old masters whose darkness conceals their artistic insignificance. The furniture is fine and solid. Nothing is very new or smart. The chintzes have a rather pallid Victorian air. The room with its substantial magnificence represents the character of a family rather than the taste of an individual. It is night and one or two electric lamps are burning.
Available since: 03/25/2021.
Print length: 168 pages.

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