A Far Country — Volume 3
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The novel charts social transformations in a prosperous city where sudden wealth attracts foreign visitors and reshapes manners; it focuses on the Durrett household—an emblem of fashionable luxury and a marriage of convenience—and on the narrator's lingering intimacy with Nancy, whose portrait prompts his renewed longing. Through salon scenes, travel, and public gossip the narrative explores the costs of opulence, the performance of femininity, and the restraints of marriage and conscience, as personal desire, social display, and shifting cultural standards produce uneasy distance between characters.
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