The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips

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Excerpt from The Price She Paid: A Novel

Henry Gower was dead at sixty-one - the end of a lifelong fraud which never had been suspected, and never would be. With the world, with his acquaintances and neighbors, with his wife and son and daughter, he passed as a generous, warm-hearted, good-natured man, ready at all times to do anything to help anybody, incapable of envy or hatred or meanness. In fact, not once in all his days had he ever thought or done a single thing except for his own comfort. Like all intensely selfish people who are wise, he was cheerful and amiable, because that was the way to be healthy and happy and to have those around one agreeable and in the mood to do what one wished them to do. He told people, not the truth, not the unpleasant thing that might help them, but what they wished to hear. His family lived in luxurious comfort only because he himself was fond of luxurious comfort. His wife and his daughter dressed fashionably and went about and entertained in the fashionable, expensive way only because that was the sort of life that gratified his vanity.

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Полное название книги David Graham Phillips The Price She Paid
Автор David Graham Phillips
Ключевые слова исторические романы
Категории Художественная литература, Книги на иностранных языках
ISBN 9781330870440
Издательство Книга по Требованию
Год 2015
Название транслитом the-price-she-paid-david-graham-phillips
Название с ошибочной раскладкой the price she paid david graham phillips