Our Friend the Charlatan
By George Gissing
28 Dec, 2019
Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his numerous courtship of women. It also describes the moral decline of a man who has only one goal, and how other p
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Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his numerous courtship of women. It also describes the moral decline of a man who has only one goal, and how other people react to it. This book is about courtship, but also about values. It raises questions like: do modern values of feminism and choice still hold? Does everybody who claims to believe in them really believe, and, of course, what if not? Less