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The Girls of Slender Means

Muriel Spark

The Girls of Slender Means is a novella written in 1963 by Scottish author Muriel Spark. It was included in Anthony Burgess's 1984 book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice.

“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”

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