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The Freaks of Mayfair

by E.F. Benson · 1916 · 181 pages

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In a series of dry fictional sketches, E.F. Benson introduces the reader to some of the more bizarre inhabitants of Mayfair's Edwardian high society - a world he knew intimately. Each is a distinct reprsentative of an anthropological "type".

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Genre
humor
Setting
20th centurylondonengland
Audience
adult
Length
short · 181 pages

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