The film 's setting is modified Henry James -LRB- wealthy London , with a few social and cultural outsiders buzzing around the hives of privilege -RRB- ; the conceit owes something to Patricia Highsmith 's Ripley books ; and the narrative engine is pure Theodore Dreiser -- hunger , lust , ambition , greed .
Henry James
London
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Henry James
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London
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Patricia Highsmith
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Ripley
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Theodore Dreiser