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The Taming of the Shrew
โ Scribed by William Shakespeare
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2015;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141914645
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โฆ Synopsis
The beautiful but sharp-tongued Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband. But when she is pursued by the wily Petruchio, it seems that she has finally met her match. And as he meets her own caustic words with a feigned, capricious cruelty, Katherina quickly comes to understand the absurdity of her shrewish behaviour, in one of the greatest of all comic battles of the sexes.
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