Book 1978

Three Clerks (World's Classics)

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1978

Fiction
Civil service
England
Social life and customs
Classic Literature
Fiction, historical, general
England, fiction
London (england), fiction

Set in the 1850s, The Three Clerks exposes and probes the relationships between three clerks and the three sisters who became their wives. At the same time it satirizes the Civil Service examinations and financial corruption in dealings on the stock market.