James, Henry,  1843-1916 <br/><br/>
Glasses 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasses_(short_story)  Release date is 1998-02-01 
<br/><br/>Transcribed from the 1916 Martin Secker edition by David Price  Transcribed from the 1916 Martin Secker edition by David Price 
<br/><br/> "Glasses" by Henry James is a short story published in 1896. A young orphan named Flora Saunt possesses extraordinary beauty—her sole asset in a world where she has little money or intellect. When she becomes engaged to a wealthy aristocrat, her future seems secure. But Flora harbors a dangerous secret: she is nearly blind and requires thick corrective glasses that destroy her famous looks. As her vision fails, she must navigate a society that values appearance above all, leading to unexpected consequences and revelations about love, vanity, and what truly matters when sight itself disappears. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Young women -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Blindness -- Fiction Eyeglasses -- Fiction Pride and vanity -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction 
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