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In Aiding and Abetting , the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England’s most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the “aiders and abetters” who kept him on the loose. When Lord Lucan walks into psychiatrist... read more
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“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
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“People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, computers, tape recorders, and generally by the time they have reached this decision, they have had a simple education.”
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Arrogance is incurable. It usually arises from a deep (sometimes justified) sense of
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People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, computers, tape recorders, and generally by the time they have reached this decision, they have
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In my view it is an economic phenomenon. We cannot afford to be snobs.
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The receptionist looked tinier than ever as she showed the tall, tall Englishman into the studio of Dr. Hildegard Wolf, the psychiatrist who had come from Bavaria, then Prague, Dresden, Avila, Marseilles, then London, and new settled in Paris.
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- Muriel Spark (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
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Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0385501536
Page Count: 176
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0385501536
Page Count: 176
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- Dewey: 823.914
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