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Tossing On The Ocean

John Fowles AN AMERICAN SEAFARER IN THE AGE OF SAIL by B. it Burg Yale, £20, pp. 212 W hen I first opened this odd book with its distinctly curious subtitle (The Erotic Diaries......

After The Ball Was Over

Craig Raine THE LE !MRS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, VOLUME IV, 1782-1784 edited by Bruce Redford Clarendon, QS, pp. 462 'The testicle continues well,' writes Dr Johnson to his intimate......