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  • Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
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Viper’s Tangle by Francois Mauriac
Mauriac’s psychological presentation of a miserly lawyer, who would put Ebeneezer Scrooge to shame, inevitably leads the reader to ask the protagonist’s own question: why is my soul a twisted nest of vipers?
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