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"My office is to charm those who charm the world," Alexander Pope declares at the start of this lively novel, based on events that inspired "The Rape of the Lock." In the elaborately narrow world of early-eighteenth-century London society, the most charming inhabitants are the beautiful Arabella Fermor and the dashing Lord Petre. Their scandalous and, in Gee's telling, heartfelt affair gives narrative thrust to rich historical details from Pope's early ...