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Scandal And Its Victims
Frank McLynn LONDON IN THE 1890s: A CULTURAL HISTORY by Karl Beckson Norton, f19.95, pp. 445 L 'terary London a century ago was awash with scandals: the Wilde trial, the fall......
So Much They Talked, So Very Little Said
Byron Rogers THE WINE DARK SEA by Patrick O'Brian HarperCollins, £1 4.99, pp. 256 h is has to be the most extraordinary work I have read by a contemporary. It is the 16th in a......