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The Awkward Age

Henry James

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1899
Pages
Pages 400

Nanda Brookenham has come downstairs, and the talk in her mother's drawing room must decide what it can still say in front of her. That is the predicament: old enough to sit with the adults, too young to be told anything, in a London circle that has turned evasion into an art.

Both the girls struck him as lambs with the great shambles of life in their future
The Awkward Age, Henry James

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