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The History of Literature
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The Golden Bowl by James Denisia Smith
James denisia smith gives us a ladder. You go up one direction, climb it, see the view from uptop. But james gives us the contours of this journey, including the peaks. The golden bowl has a marvellous plot. Maggie verver lives in london. She is the daughter of adam verver, who is wealthy and a widowert are americans also. A prince arrives amerago, an impoverished italian nobleman. He's married to maggie, and he's having an affair with his wife's mother-in-law. Charlotte is poor and married to her friend's father. Sheis cheating on him with her oldest
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