The Three Clerks (The World's Classics)
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Set in the 1850s, The Three Clerks exposes and probes the relationships between three clerks and the three sisters who became their wives. At the same time it satirizes the Civil Service examinations and financial corruption in dealings on the stock market.
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Well now, Gertrude, do you mean to say you think it right that Katie should sit by and hear a man talk as Captain Cuttwater talked last night? Do you mean to say that the scene which passed, with the rum and the curses, and the absurd ridicule which was thrown on your mother's uncle, was such as should take place in your mother's drawing-room?
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The Three Clerks (The World's Classics),Anthony Trollope,Graham Handley,Oxford University Press, USA,0192818295,20th Century English Novel And Short Story,Civil service,Critical Care,Fiction,General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,London (England),Medical,Fiction / Classics
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