An Academic Question
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An Academic Question

Barbara Pym
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Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tedium in reading to the elderly and becoming a party to her husband's purloining of an important manuscript
Genres: FictionBritish LiteratureClassicsNovelsLiterary FictionAcademia20th CenturyFemale AuthorsModern ClassicsHumor
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