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Antigua, Penny, Puce is a tale of sibling rivalry in which Jane and Oliver fight for posession of a never-issued one-penny stamp from Antigua. They Hanged my Saintly Billy tells of Dr William Palmer, a notorious surgeon, racehorse owner and confessed forger who was also a thief.
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Introduction: The two novels brought together in this volume were composed some twenty years apart.
"Antigua, penny, puce": 'ANTIGUA, penny, puce.' The eye dwells on it excitedly, and a flood of memories and conjectures surges into the heart.
They hanged my Saintly Billy: The trial of William Palmer, aged thirty-one, surgeon and race-horse owner, began yesterday at the Old Bailey after a delay of nearly five months.
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Antigua, penny, puce: For every ordinary man is a schoolboy at heart, and every ordinary woman a schoolgirl.
Antigua, penny, puce: ... recalling stories that he has heard of the wives .... of bibilophiles who remove the original wrappers and neatly cut the pages of virginal first editions.
Antigua, penny, puce: What was Dickens? It is better not to say. To breathe a word about Dickens is like sitting down when the band plays "God Save the King". Nobody has really read Dickens, just as nobodv reallv knows the words of "God Save the King".'
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Introduction: Graves's continuing interest in judgement and interpretation in these two novels is a testament to his faith in the enduring power of the book to help us to reach fair assessments of individuals and to lead better lives.
"Antigua, penny, puce": In any case we have satisfied ourselves that the newspaper reports quoted give a fair enough account of both the trials that occur in this book, and if the Judge perhaps gave a wrong decision in the first of these, well with the greatest respect - judges sometimes do.
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Antigua, Penny, Puce is a tale of sibling rivalry in which Jane and Oliver fight for posession of a never-issued one-penny stamp from Antigua. They Hanged my Saintly Billy tells of Dr William Palmer, a notorious surgeon, racehorse owner and confessed forger who was also a thief.
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