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The Merry-go-round by Somerset Maugham

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The Merry-go-round
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Publisher: Doubleday, Page & company
Number of pages: 42

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Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason.

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