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"... No one conversant with can have failed to be struck by the extraordinary lawlessness that prevailed at sea. The c…"

"... It is the fact that teaches, and not any sermonizing drawn from it. Oliver Twist is the history of a child born i…"

"... If to owe nothing to other men is to be original, a more original man than Swift never lived; but, with the wonde…"

"By 1831, when Forster was 18 and Lamb 55, they had met and become friends. Lamb was then living in retirement at as a…"

"So much has been said by Forster himself in the Life about the dramatic performances in aid of the comparatively shor…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"