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The love story that took two centuries to write
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Book of the week A Venetian Affair by Andrea di Robilant 4th
Estate Pounds 16.99 .Pounds 13.59 (0870 165 0870) ****
Every age suspects itself of having invented sex. ' Sexual
intercourse began/In nineteen sixty-three,' was the way Philip Larkin
put it. ' . . .
Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And the Beatles' first LP.'
There has, of course, always been plenty of evidence to the contrary,
but A Venetian Affair, reconstructed from the red-hot correspondence
of a dashing Ven...
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