The Bachelors

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The Bachelors (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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*London. Great Britain’s capital city and largest metropolis. Muriel Spark’s characters do not inhabit the showplace London of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. Instead, she sets her story in London’s grubby, everyday, lower-middle-class and middle-class residential corners. Events unfold in coffeehouses, grocery shops, quirky private clubs such as the Pandaemonium, and old houses subdivided into apartments.

None of the characters in The Bachelors appears to be married (except, perhaps, Patrick Seton). Some have been married,...

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