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Brides of price

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Set in Oxford, the narrator is an academic anthropologist who is trying to write a major contribution to his subject and avoid being made a professor. Meanwhile he grieves the death of the woman he wanted to marry, accepts the …

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Set in Oxford, the narrator is an academic anthropologist who is trying to write a major contribution to his subject and avoid being made a professor. Meanwhile he grieves the death of the woman he wanted to marry, accepts the rejection of the woman he did marry, and rediscovers the woman he should have married. He also frets about the future of a surprising daughter and loses a mistress to an unexpected son.

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"Set in Oxford, the narrator is an academic anthropologist who is trying to write a major contribution to his subject and avoid being made a professor. Meanwhile he grieves the …"

— Margaret

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