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Goslings

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By J. D. Beresford
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A middle‑class household is sketched through domestic episodes that reveal the gap between outward respectability and private desires. The patriarch’s pride in social standing collides with his family’s ambitions and small vanities as daughters press for appearances and opportunities that strained finances make difficult. Wry observation and satirical detail show how petty pretensions, hidden anxieties, and generational misunderstandings shape daily life and decisions. The work blends character study with social commentary, tracing how aspiration and self‑image govern behavior in a constrained, conventional milieu.

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Title: Goslings

Author: J. D. Beresford

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Language: English

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Goslings

New 6s. Novels

THE AMBASSADRESS. By William Wriothesley.

THE WEAKER VESSEL. By E. F. Benson, author of “Account Rendered,” etc.

“WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO...?” By Elizabeth Robins, author of “The Magnetic North,” etc.

A RUNAWAY RING. By Mrs Henry Dudeney, author of “The Orchard Thief,” etc.

LU OF THE RANGES. By Eleanor Mordaunt, author of “The Cost of It,” etc.

THE STORY OF STEPHEN COMPTON. By J. E. Patterson, author of “Tillers of the Soil,” etc.

THE FRONTIERS OF THE HEART. By Victor Margueritte.

JOHN CHRISTOPHER (IV). Journey’s End. By Romain Rolland, translated by Gilbert Cannan.

THE HIPPODROME. By Rachel Hayward.

GUTTER BABIES. By Dorothea Slade, illustrated by Lady Stanley.

MINNA. By Karl Gjellerup, author of “The Pilgrim Kamanita.”

GROWING PAINS. By Ivy Low.

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

Goslings
By
J. D. Beresford
Author of “The Hampdenshire Wonder,” etc.
London
William Heinemann
1913

Copyright, 1913]