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The Reverberator
''The Reverberator'' is a short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in '' Macmillan's Magazine'' in 1888, and then as a book later the same year. Described by web authorityon Henry James as "a delightful Parisian bonbon," the comedy traces the complications that result when nasty but true stories about a Paris family get into the American scandal sheet of the novel's title. Plot summary George Flack is the Paris correspondent for an American scandal sheet called ''The Reverberator''. Francie Dosson, a pretty but not always tactful American girl, confides to Flack some gossip about the Proberts, the Frenchified (but originally American) family of her fiancé, Gaston Probert. Predictably, to everybody except Francie, the nasty gossip winds up in ''The Reverberator'', much to the horror of the stuffy Proberts. Francie makes no attempt to hide her role in giving Flack the juicy details. Gaston is initially dismayed by his fiancée's indiscretions. But with the ...
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The Reverberator
''The Reverberator'' is a short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in '' Macmillan's Magazine'' in 1888, and then as a book later the same year. Described by web authorityon Henry James as "a delightful Parisian bonbon," the comedy traces the complications that result when nasty but true stories about a Paris family get into the American scandal sheet of the novel's title. Plot summary George Flack is the Paris correspondent for an American scandal sheet called ''The Reverberator''. Francie Dosson, a pretty but not always tactful American girl, confides to Flack some gossip about the Proberts, the Frenchified (but originally American) family of her fiancé, Gaston Probert. Predictably, to everybody except Francie, the nasty gossip winds up in ''The Reverberator'', much to the horror of the stuffy Proberts. Francie makes no attempt to hide her role in giving Flack the juicy details. Gaston is initially dismayed by his fiancée's indiscretions. But with the ...
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