Nov 21, 2008

The Bachelors | The Bachelors

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Author: Muriel Sarah Camberg
First Published: 1960
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social satire
Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
Genres: Long fiction, Satire
Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Twentieth century, Christianity, Faith, London, Spiritualism, Single people, Fraud, Museums, Epilepsy
Locales: London, England

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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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The Bachelors | The Bachelors

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