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What's Wrong with the World?
The Story. The scene is Vienna; the first part of the book describes certain incredibly unpleasant people in their unhappy youth about the year 1881, and the second in their even more unhappy age about the year 1921.
Ulrika Woytich, a young woman with an irresistible personality, a consuming ambition and a total lack of scruples, comes up to Vienna "on the make." It is her intention to windlass the family fortune out of a miserly and almost—not quite—inhuman...
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