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The novel takes place in a fairly large American city under the loud name Zenith. The main hero of the novel, George Babbitt, a forty-five-year-old owner of the agency that sells and leases real
The action takes place in Spain, where rich fathers specifically hire evil duennies, so that they look after their young daughters and strictly abused their morality. This is exactly how Don Geronimo, the father
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I go to the patronal feast in the prison church together with Maman and Alexandra Lvovna Ley. Here we meet “mademazel” Gorshkov and her little students. I read about the city of En, about
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