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You Have Been Warned

Jonathan Mirsky THE CONFIDENCE MAN: HIS MASQUERADE by Herman Melville Dalkey Archive Press, £8.99, pp. 354, ISBN 9781564784544 © £7.19 (plus £2.45 p+p) 0870 429 6655 Many years......

Likely Lads In Their Day

Simon Raven's first novel, The Feathers of Death, was published in 1959 when I was in my second year at Cambridge. We fell on it with glee, as I remarked, a few weeks after......