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The adventures of Philip on his way through the world
William Makepeace Thackeray
出版J.B. Alden, 1883
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註釋"A Shabby Genteel Story" begins in the winter of 1835, a well-born but impoverished gentleman calling himself "George Brandon" is hiding from his creditors in the seaside town of Margate. He finds cheap lodgings with a family: James Gann, a bankrupted small businessman; his termagant and socially pretentious wife, Juliana; her two elder daughters by her first husband, Rosalind and Isabella Wellesley Macarty; and her downtrodden youngest daughter, Caroline Gann. Though he despises the entire family as ridiculously vulgar, Brandon plans to amuse himself by seducing one or other of the elder girls, who are local belles; they realize he is mocking them and so Brandon irritably switches his attentions to the youngest, Caroline