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Kirkdale Bookshop

Just sold an old Penguin of The Three Musketeers. From the Wikipedia article about the translator: "In a 1948 court case, two wrestlers whom he had invited home the previous day for wrestling and drinking, were prosecuted for theft." Wonderful times.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

That in turn reminds me of all the grief L P Hartley had from successive servants/chauffeurs etc. He really knew how to pick a ruffian

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gerard01

This is why i only ever employ Tradesmen from the Royal Marine Commando club in Paddington. They may be rough, but they are always ready.

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Sean of the guitar camp

Did he ever find a copy of Fly Fishing?

Kirkdale Bookshop

"His great, and rare, gift was his originality: long after most men have become conditioned and conventionalised he continued to view the world with his own particular vision, which contained an extraordinary mixture of sophistication and innocence"

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Carl Rosman

His younger brother, who succeeded to the Earldom, sponsored in the House of Lords the private members bill which, as the Sexual Offences Act 1967, decriminalised homosexual acts between consenting kleptomaniac wrestlers.

Jeff Billington

Was it translated by Porthos?